I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to be simplified in most cases to colour and force lines, just as music has done with sound. — Arthur Dove Copy Share Image
What constitutes American painting?... things may be in America, but it's what is in the artist that counts. What do we call 'American' outside… — Arthur Dove Copy Share Image
It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside. — Arthur Dove Copy Share Image
I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to be simplified… — Arthur Dove Copy Share Image
How do you feel about a person when you're talking over the phone? If you know them, or if you don't know them, do… — Arthur Dove Copy Share Image
Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which I wish… — Arthur Dove Copy Share Image
We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves. — Arthur Dove Copy Share Image
I would like to make something that is real in itself that does not remind anyone of any other things, and that does not… — Arthur Dove Copy Share Image
