Maxfield Parrish Quotes

#1. My father taught me about having principles and how to treat people with respect. My aunt also taught me how to keep a perspective on everything that happens to you. So you learn to be humble and not take your success for granted.

George Clooney

#2. She was afraid to be angry and that made her angry.

Marilynne Robinson

#3. Walk away from it until you're stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.

Lady Bird Johnson

#4. There is an implied warranty that a commissioned work should last a lifetime. There is to be no charge.

Maxfield Parrish

#5. No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

John Bunyan

#6. I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.

Maxfield Parrish

#7. What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It's like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet.

Leonid Andreyev

#8. There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.

Maxfield Parrish

#9. Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.

Margaret Atwood

#10. But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

Jane Campion

#11. You can't recover from what you do not understand.

Lillian Hellman

#12. There was so long from when we did the pilot and then when the show was eventually picked up by Comedy Central - and, in fact, we had to shoot the pilot twice.

Thomas Lennon

#13. What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for reassurance in the eyes of others. Look for reassurance in your own eyes. Only you know if Buddhist practice is improving the quality of your life.

Frederick Lenz

#14. The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

Maxfield Parrish

#15. I always wanted to be part of a movie that creates a different world.

Ansel Elgort

#16. Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art ... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!

Maxfield Parrish

#17. Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back.

Maxfield Parrish

#18. I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able.

Maxfield Parrish

#19. It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.

Maxfield Parrish