Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Milton Avery

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American artist Milton Avery.

Last updated on December 23, 2024.

Milton Clark Avery was an American modern painter. Born in Altmar, New York, he moved to Connecticut in 1898 and later to New York City. He was the husband of artist Sally Michel Avery and the father of artist March Avery.

American - Artist | March 7, 1885 - January 3, 1965

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Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

Milton Avery

Why talk when you can paint?

Milton Avery

I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.

Milton Avery

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Milton Avery

Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it.

Milton Avery