Horace Pippin Quotes

#1. Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

Don Marquis

#2. Well, whatever one thinks of the Roman Church, it is a worthy and powerful foe. I could accept that sort of conversion with grace. But I shall be very disappointed indeed if we lose him to the Presbyterians.

Donna Tartt

#3. The pictures come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worthwhile picture I paint it I do over the picture several times in my mind and when I am ready to paint it I have all the details I need.

Horace Pippin

#4. In primary school, I was bored witless by Australian history.

Catherine Jinks

#5. Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.

Horace Pippin

#6. The war brought out all the art in me.

Horace Pippin

#7. The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us.

Frederick Lenz

#8. The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby the tilt of the social landscape.

Eric Hoffer

#9. My opinion of art is that a man should have love for it, because my idea is that he paints from his heart and mind.

Horace Pippin

#10. If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.

Horace Pippin