Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Mervyn Levy

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Welsh artist Mervyn Levy.

Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Mervyn Levy was a Welsh artist, art teacher and writer on art. Born in Swansea, where he became a friend of the painter Alfred Janes, the poet Dylan Thomas and the musician Daniel Jones, he spent most of his teaching career in Bristol and London, and made several popular television series about painting techniques. He published monographs on contemporary artists, and a catalogue raisonnee of the works of his friend the painter L. S. Lowry.

Welsh - Artist | 1915 - April 14, 1996

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An intrinsic part of the whole delicious, exuberant fun, and joy of painting consists in simply not having to bother about making a mess, either of one's person, or of the surroundings in which one is at work.

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It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting... is a source of deep psychological satisfaction... It is a system which can also in some measure, even compensate for the lack of emotional fulfilment in human relationships.

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The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.

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The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.

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A drawing of the nude is a most revealing expression because it is at once the most private and the most personal. Often such drawings are made with no thought of public exhibition. They possess the intimacy of diaries.

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Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.

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Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Mervyn Levy

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