Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Jack Levine

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American artist Jack Levine.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Jack Levine

Jack Levine was an American Social Realist painter and printmaker best known for his satires on modern life, political corruption, and biblical narratives.

This acting was very hard work.
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
I'm an outsider. — © Jack Levine
I'm an outsider.
As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.
Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
Impulses are hard to come by these days.
I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.
I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?
My goal... not to go back to Rembrandt... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.
I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way-under the hoop. — © Jack Levine
I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way-under the hoop.
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