Maxfield Parrish famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.
-- Maxfield Parrish

#Beautiful #Color #White
There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.
-- Maxfield Parrish

#Artist #Shoes #Pay
The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.
-- Maxfield Parrish

#Color #Space #Light
Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back.
-- Maxfield Parrish

#Thank You #Thinking #Color
I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able.
-- Maxfield Parrish

#Girl #Art #Men
I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace!... Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.
-- Maxfield Parrish

#Appreciation #Artist #People
Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!
-- Maxfield Parrish

#Art #God Knows #Explanation
There is an implied warranty that a commissioned work should last a lifetime. There is to be no charge.
-- Maxfield Parrish

#Lasts #Lifetime #Should

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.
It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.
The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.
I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.
I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'.
This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool.
It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.

Maxfield Parrish famous quotes

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