Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Charles Marion Russell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American artist Charles Marion Russell.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Charles Marion Russell, also known as C. M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and "Kid" Russell, was an American artist of the American Old West. He created more than 2,000 paintings of cowboys, Native Americans, and landscapes set in the western United States and in Alberta, Canada, in addition to bronze sculptures. He is known as "the cowboy artist" and was also a storyteller and author. He became an advocate for Native Americans in the west, supporting the bid by landless Chippewa to have a reservation established for them in Montana. In 1916, Congress passed legislation to create the Rocky Boy Reservation.

American - Artist | March 19, 1864 - October 24, 1926

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I ain't no historian but I happen to savvy this incident.

Charles Marion Russell

A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.

Charles Marion Russell

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

Charles Marion Russell

I don't know the difference between a warm color and a cool one.

Charles Marion Russell

Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.

Charles Marion Russell

You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.

Charles Marion Russell

A pioneer is a man who turned all the grass upside down, strung bob-wire over the dust that was left, poisoned the water, cut down the trees, killed the Indian who owned the land and called it progress.

Charles Marion Russell

Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers.

Charles Marion Russell

The cowboy doesn't need an iron horse, but covers his country on one that eats grass and wears hair.

Charles Marion Russell