Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Margaret Preston

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian artist Margaret Preston.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Margaret Preston

Margaret Rose Preston was an Australian painter and printmaker who is regarded as one of Australia's leading modernists of the early 20th century. In her quest to foster an Australian "national art", she was also one of the first non-Indigenous Australian artists to use Aboriginal motifs in her work.

No-one is ever too old to know better. — © Margaret Preston
No-one is ever too old to know better.
You will find scraps of paper all over the house when I am designing a new woodcut and woe betide the person who touches one of the scraps. When I have the exact design in my mind, I set the model up, pots and flowers, leaves and background, and begin work.
Tis the motive exalts the action; 'Tis the doing, and not the deed.
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