Artist Quotes by Wolf Kahn

To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.

— Wolf Kahn

The artist's alertness to the coloristic demands of each picture, the ability to respond to the picture's needs, to feed the color until its…

— Wolf Kahn

People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment and pleasure,…

— Wolf Kahn

I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is…

— Wolf Kahn

There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules.

— Wolf Kahn

It is through color changes that we go forward... all decisions come about as the picture is made and in response to painterly demands.…

— Wolf Kahn

I'm always trying to get to a danger point in color, where color either becomes too sweet or it becomes too harsh, it becomes…

— Wolf Kahn

Keep the childlike vision and remain true to your ideas.

— Wolf Kahn

I want the people looking at my work to feel a sense of all the possibilities of painting, and, through that, in life as…

— Wolf Kahn

Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception of a…

— Wolf Kahn

Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.

— Wolf Kahn