Mervyn Levy famous quotes

The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.
-- Mervyn Levy

#Inspiration #Artist #Painting

A drawing of the nude is a most revealing expression because it is at once the most private and the most personal. Often such drawings are made with no thought of public exhibition. They possess the intimacy of diaries.
-- Mervyn Levy

#Expression #Drawing #Exhibitions

The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.
-- Mervyn Levy

#Art #Personality #Spectators

It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting... is a source of deep psychological satisfaction... It is a system which can also in some measure, even compensate for the lack of emotional fulfilment in human relationships...
-- Mervyn Levy

#Emotional #Expression #Satisfaction

Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.
-- Mervyn Levy

#Song #Art #Freedom

An intrinsic part of the whole delicious, exuberant fun, and joy of painting consists in simply not having to bother about making a mess, either of one's person, or of the surroundings in which one is at work.
-- Mervyn Levy

#Fun #Joy #Painting

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.

Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.

What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.

An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

My paintings are the last paintings one can make.