Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Jeffrey Smart

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Last updated on October 7, 2024.

Frank Jeffrey Edson Smart was an expatriate Australian painter known for his precisionist depictions of urban landscapes that are "full of private jokes and playful allusions".

July 26, 1921 - June 20, 2013

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I feel it's just some sort of game if it's just abstract.

Jeffrey Smart

I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.

Jeffrey Smart

I like living in the 20th century... to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes.

Jeffrey Smart

Sometimes I'll drive around for months despair, nothing, nothing, then suddenly I will see something that seizes me... a shape, a combination of shapes, a play of light or shadows and I send up a prayer because I know I have the germ of a picture.

Jeffrey Smart

Everybody gets inspired. We all have these moments. It just depends on whether you've got the ability to seize it.

Jeffrey Smart