Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Mary Pratt

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Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Mary Frances Pratt, LL.D D.Litt. was a Canadian painter known for photo-realist still life paintings. Pratt never thought of her work as being focused on one subject matter: her early work is often of domestic scenes, while later work may have a darker undertone, with people as the central subject matter. She painted what appealed to her, being emotionally connected to her subject. Pratt often spoke of conveying the sensuality of light in her paintings, and of the "erotic charge" her chosen subjects possessed.

Painter | Born: March 15, 1935

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I can't stand theory because it is imposed by the intellectual. And the intellectual is, by definition, not a creative person. The intellectual is a person who talks about the creative process, but often doesn't understand it.

Mary Pratt

Sometimes I seem to be two people. One who does not paint and one who does. The one who does not paint assumes that the one who does can paint anything. The one who is the painter sometimes finds it difficult to live up to that faith.

Mary Pratt

The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life.

Mary Pratt

My only strength is finding something where most people would find nothing.

Mary Pratt

The fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all.

Mary Pratt

When I'm painting them, the whole legend and mythology of apples occurs to me, and so Adam and Eve and the snake and all the rest of it somehow gets into the picture.

Mary Pratt

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Mary Pratt

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