John Marin Quotes

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

  Juan Marín

  Giving, Chance, Paint

  John Marin (1970). “John Marin”

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

  Juan Marín

  Golf, Painting, Strokes

  "John Marin Memorial Exhibition".

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• 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.

  Juan Marín

  Waiting, Firsts, Bows

  John Marin, Nannette Vicars Maciejunes, Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1991). “Trees as Seen Through the Eyes of John Marin and Charles Burchfield: May 1991”

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• 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.

  Juan Marín

  Art, Greatness, Wonderful

  John Marin (1970). “John Marin”

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• Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

  Juan Marín

  Giving, Chance, Paint

  John Marin (1970). “John Marin”

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• 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.

  Juan Marín

  Art, Animal, Trying

  John Marin (1970). “John Marin”

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• 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?

  Juan Marín

  Flower, Bully, Littles

  John Marin (1949). “Selected Writings”

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

  Juan Marín

  Art, Revelations, Revealing

  John Marin (1970). “John Marin”

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• Donde se encuentran los quizás hay que hacer algo al respecto, y puesto que el arte se ocupa de los quizás y los quizás sos, ¿por qué no llamarlo la ciencia consumada, que obtiene su perfección de la aparente imperfección?

  Juan Marín

  Art, Perfection, Why Not

  "John Marin".

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• I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat.

  Juan Marín

  Sides, Finishing, Boat

  John Marin (1949). “Selected Writings”

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• Dé una oportunidad a los instrumentos: sus sonidos son muy bellos.

  Juan Marín

  Beautiful, Giving, Sound

  John Marin (1970). “John Marin”

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