Contribution Quote by Morris Graves

“It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.”

Morris Graves

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Contribution Firsts Ifs May Mind Obvious Psychology Thinking Valuable

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I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the…

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It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person…

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I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.

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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 which direct…

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You must first realize the thing completely in your mind. Then grasp the brush, fix your attention so that you see clearly what you…

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An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the superiorly searching…

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Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by…

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The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration,…

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I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and…

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It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so…

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The artists of Asia have spiritually realized form, rather than aesthetically invented or imitated form, and from them I have learned that art and…

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