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 Copy Share Image
I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has… — John Marin Copy Share Image
Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture. — John Marin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Where the perhapses are found something has to be done about it and since art deals in the perhapses & maybe sos why not… — John Marin Copy Share Image
A work of art is full of perhapses and maybesos. Where the perhapses are found, something has to be done about it. And since… — John Marin Copy Share Image
Painting is like golf; the fewer strokes I take, the better the picture. — John Marin Copy Share Image
Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you just look… — John Marin Copy Share Image
How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then,… — John Marin Copy Share Image
A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing. — John Marin Copy Share Image
