Arthur Dove famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Light #Sun
It is hard for a flat thing to understand a round one.
-- Arthur Dove

#Flats
Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which I wish to put down. It should be a delightful adventure.
-- Arthur Dove

#Adventure #Mean #Reality
I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature.
-- Arthur Dove

#Mirrors #Looks #Painting
I would like to make something that is real in itself that does not remind anyone of any other things, and that does not have to be explained like the letter A, for instance.
-- Arthur Dove

#Real #Doe #Letters
It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.
-- Arthur Dove

#Ideas #Imagination #Form
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 of painting? Inventiveness, restlessness, speed, change...
-- Arthur Dove

#Artist #America #Patriotism
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 you get something, do you put that into words of your own, from what they say, or from what you think? Or if it were music over the radio, have you ever tried to think how it would look?
-- Arthur Dove

#Thinking #Phones #Talking
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

#Wind #Water #Sound

The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.
In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.
Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. We just need to keep battling. We're a team that has stuck together through the good times and the bad times. Our reward is near.
I am in awe of the things you've been put through and the fact you can still light up a room when you walk in. When I look at you I see life. I see joy. I see my future.
I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.
How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.

Arthur Dove famous quotes

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