Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Larry Rivers

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Larry Rivers.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Larry Rivers (1923 – 2002) was an American artist, musician, filmmaker, and occasional actor. Considered by many scholars to be the "Godfather" and "Grandfather" of Pop art, he was one of the first artists to merge non-objective, non-narrative art with narrative and objective abstraction.

American - Musician | August 17, 1923 - August 14, 2002

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Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

Larry Rivers

I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

Larry Rivers

I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.

Larry Rivers

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

Larry Rivers

One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. The billboard advertising cigars, Dutch Masters. I realized it was sort of perfect. It's weird isn't it? You're looking at Rembrandt - in neon! It was too much, it was irresistible.

Larry Rivers

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

Larry Rivers

I remember everything I know even the most superficial things. And what comes out is in my canvases.

Larry Rivers