John Marin Quotes

#1. Maine likes to call itself 'America's Vacationland.' For many artists, though, it's the office. Since the 19th century, painters from all over the country - including Edward Hopper, Alex Katz, John Marin, Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver and Andrew Wyeth - have spent large chunks of time there.

Terry Teachout

#2. Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.

John Marin

#3. Make me a weapon," I whispered as he pulled away. "Make it so I never have to dream about this again - make it so we can have this ... forever.

Cassandra Giovanni

#4. Painting is like golf; the fewer strokes I take, the better the picture.

John Marin

#5. I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat.

John Marin

#6. We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.

Paulo Coelho

#7. I urge you to live within your means. One cannot spend more than one earns and remain solvent. I promise you that you will then be happier than you would be if you were constantly worrying about how to make the next payment on nonessential debt.

Thomas S. Monson

#8. Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures.

Rajneesh

#9. What stopped you? Why didn't you help her?" [Naji]
"Cause you're my friend," I said. [Ananna]
All the hardness in his features melted away. "Oh.

Cassandra Rose Clarke

#10. Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.

John Marin

#11. Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

John Marin

#12. the pleasure that I get day in and day out comes from working jointly with amazing researchers/friends -

Dan Ariely

#13. We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.

Jack Nicholson

#14. In the world of Internet Customer Service, it's important to remember your competitor is only one mouse click away.

Douglas A. Warner III

#15. Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.

John Marin

#16. In a second or two he would get up and join her in the shower he could hear running--consolidate his place with some very passionate seed-sowing and at the same time he would make Nell fall in love with him again.

Michelle Reid

#17. My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations

Philippe Starck

#18. When I was a little kid playing baseball, my manager called me Sleepy. And only a few people, who know me from way, way back, call me that still. I used to drift off and that's why they made me the catcher, so I wouldn't fall asleep. That gift I have still.

Bill Murray

#19. A work of art is full of perhapses and maybesos. Where the perhapses are found, something has to be done about it. And since art deals wtih the perhapses and maybesos, and why not call it the consummate science ... which gets its perfection from seemingly imperfection.

John Marin

#20. A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.

John Marin

#21. Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you just look at that bully little flower - isn't that enough?

John Marin

#22. How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape.

John Marin

#23. Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

John Marin