Jack Levine Quotes

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?

I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

I'm an outsider.

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.

This acting was very hard work.

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

My goal ... not to go back to Rembrandt ... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.