Milton Avery Quotes

#1. Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn.

Milton Avery

#2. Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

Milton Avery

#3. William Tell could take an apple off your head, [Phil] Taylor could take out a processed pea.

Sid Waddell

#4. The Creator predetermined our life on earth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Oh, never trust a country That won't permit live poultry to ride on the bus.

Tom Robbins

#6. Right now I can't even control my own imagination as it grips my hair and drags me into the dark

Tahereh Mafi

#7. I always wanted to make an abstract photograph. I would photograph walls, sports interiors, marks on the walls people made. Even looking back it makes so much sense. It's like it was a fight against the photograph.

Idris Khan

#8. Why talk when you can paint?

Milton Avery

#9. Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it.

Milton Avery

#10. It was my ornithologist, calling to remind me that I'm a ptarmigan and must be careful of falcons!

Oddny Eir

#11. I had hoped I would have some definitive news to give you by now, but I've heard (unofficially) that they need/will take another 2 week extension to make their decision. I've also heard that the police are flooding the Gov's office with last minute calls/letters requesting that I be denied ...

Sundiata Acoli

#12. To be able to be oneself and not have to disown one's values to please another - That is what intimate love is all about.

Milton Avery

#13. The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Milton Avery

#14. Touch not the fighting-dog without a glove.
Give me a fighting-dog and I come alive.
Fighting-dogs always meant more to Tom Mitchell than people.

John Duncan

#15. I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.

Milton Avery