Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Larry Poons

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Japanese artist Larry Poons.

Last updated on November 9, 2024.

Lawrence M. "Larry" Poons is an American abstract painter. Poons was born in Tokyo, Japan, and studied from 1955 to 1957 at the New England Conservatory of Music, with the intent of becoming a professional musician. After seeing Barnett Newman's exhibition at French and Company in 1959, he gave up musical composition and enrolled at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He also studied at the Art Students League of New York. Poons taught at The Art Students League from 1966 to 1970 and currently teaches at the League.

Japanese - Artist | Born: October 1, 1937

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If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.

Larry Poons

If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.

Larry Poons

There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.

Larry Poons

A great painting is a great painting.

Larry Poons

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

Larry Poons