"Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters."

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Source : Jack Levine, Milton Wolf Brown (1989). “Jack Levine”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

Jack Levine

#Character Quotes #Independent Quotes #Artist Quotes

“The amount which cannot be harnessed and domesticated, but insists on its own form of activity rather than one which is offered ready made, is the energy used for the creation of art.”
“This wasÂ Mahatma Gandhiâ€™s idea, moving from ownership to relationshipâ€”seeing that land does not belong to us. We belong to the land. We are not the owners of the land. We are the friends of the land, like friends of the earth. The fundamental shift is in this consciousness that land does not belong to us, we belong to the land.”
“The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.”
“Itâ€™s very difficult to trace convicted paedophiles”
“...in life it is often the tiny details that end up being the most important.”
“I'm on the Internet a lot more than I watch TV and most everybody I know is, and yet if you watch most late-night talk shows, it's as if it doesn't even exist.”
“This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.”
“In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you'd get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it's hard work, almost harder once you're successful because you've got to maintain it.”

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