Thing Completely Quotes by Morris Graves

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• I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities…
• I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its…
• Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed…
• You must first realize the thing completely in your mind. Then grasp the brush, fix your attention so that you see clearly…
• I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.
• The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it…
• The artists of Asia have spiritually realized form, rather than aesthetically invented or imitated form, and from them I have learned that…
• It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record,…

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