Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Keith Crown

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Last updated on December 20, 2024.

Keith Crown was an American abstract painter and Professor of Art at the University of Southern California, best known for his vibrant, expressive watercolors of the American southwest.

May 27, 1918 - January 31, 2010

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I must react selectively, contrarily, arbitrarily, perversely, and always with intensity directly from the subject.

Keith Crown

Seeing is such a privilege. Who notices the way the screech of a gull looks, the look of a gale, the sight of some fragrance?

Keith Crown

Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.

Keith Crown

A red apple isn't red, nor the lemon yellow. The sky is seldom blue, only when it isn't.

Keith Crown

Anything can be any color at any time depending on what color everything else is at the time.

Keith Crown

My problem is to bring together in a painting two seemingly conflicting, impossibly unmixable ideas. One is that the finished work shall evoke a sense of recognition, of the mysteriously familiar... the other is that in order to do the first I must deeply know my subject.

Keith Crown

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Keith Crown

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