Maxwell Bodenheim famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.

  • Other times when I hear the wind blow I feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.

  • I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

  • Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

  • I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

  • If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.

  • I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!

  • Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.

  • He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

  • Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.