John Marin Quotes

Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.

How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape.

Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.

Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.

Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you just look at that bully little flower - isn't that enough?

Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.