Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Raphael Soyer

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American painter Raphael Soyer.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Raphael Soyer

Raphael Zalman Soyer was a Russian-born American painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Soyer was referred to as an American scene painter. He is identified as a Social Realist because of his interest in men and women viewed in contemporary settings which included the streets, subways, salons and artists' studios of New York City. He also wrote several books on his life and art.

If I don't paint for one day, I don't feel well physically or mentally.
Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.
If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times. — © Raphael Soyer
If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.
Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.
From all that I have seen, I am more than ever convinced that art must communicate, and it must represent, describe and express people, their lives and times.
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