Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Charles Sheeler

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American painter Charles Sheeler.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Charles Sheeler was an American artist known for his Precisionist paintings, commercial photography, and the avant-garde film, Manhatta, which he made in collaboration with Paul Strand. Sheeler is recognized as one of the early adopters of modernism in American art.

American - Painter | July 16, 1883 - May 7, 1965

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I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.

Charles Sheeler

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outward, painting from the eyes inward. Photography records inalterably the single image, while painting records a plurality of images willfully directed by the artist.

Charles Sheeler

Isn't it amazing how photography has advanced without improving.

Charles Sheeler

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.

Charles Sheeler

Every age manifests itself by some external evidence. In a period such as ours when only a comparatively few individuals seem to be given to religion, some form other than the Gothic cathedral must be found. Industry concerns the greatest numbers-it may be true, as has been said, that our factories are our substitute for religious expression.

Charles Sheeler

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Charles Sheeler

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