Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Grant Wood

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American artist Grant Wood.

Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Grant DeVolson Wood was an American painter and representative of Regionalism, best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest. He is particularly well known for American Gothic (1930), which has become an iconic example of early 20th-century American art.

American - Artist | February 13, 1891 - February 12, 1942

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You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.

Grant Wood

All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

Grant Wood

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

Grant Wood

Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday life. It is the depth and intensity of an artist’s experience that are the first importance in art.

Grant Wood

Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, you all had great moments, but you never tasted the supreme triumph; you were never a farm boy riding in from the fields on a bulging rack of new-mown hay.

Grant Wood

I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.

Grant Wood

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Grant Wood

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