Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by George Bellows

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American painter George Bellows.

Last updated on October 3, 2024.

George Wesley Bellows was an American realist painter, known for his bold depictions of urban life in New York City. He became, according to the Columbus Museum of Art, "the most acclaimed American artist of his generation".

American - Painter | August 19, 1882 - January 8, 1925

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I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri... My life began at this point.

George Bellows

The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.

George Bellows

The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.

George Bellows

Try everything that can be done. Be deliberate. Be spontaneous. Be thoughtful and painstaking. Be abandoned and impulsive. Learn your own possibilities.

George Bellows

Art strives for structure, and aspires for magnificence.

George Bellows

Try everything that can be done.... Learn your own possibilities.

George Bellows