Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by A. Y. Jackson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a painter A. Y. Jackson.
Last updated on December 5, 2024.
A. Y. Jackson

Alexander Young Jackson LL.D. was a Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven. Jackson made a significant contribution to the development of art in Canada, and was instrumental in bringing together the artists of Montreal and Toronto. He helped found the Group of Seven in 1920. In addition to his work with the Group of Seven, his long career included serving as a War Artist during World War I (1917–19) and teaching at the Banff School of Fine Arts, from 1943 to 1949. In his later years he was artist-in-residence at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario.

Painter | October 3, 1882 - April 5, 1974
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.
It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration.
Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful. — © A. Y. Jackson
Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.
Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.
To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
Chop your own path. Get off the car track
Those who follow are always behind.
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