Top 6 Quotes by Keith Crown

Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.

Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.

Keith Crown

Color, Lovely, Privilege

Keith Crown (1967). “Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967”

A red apple isn't red, nor the lemon yellow. The sky is seldom blue, only when it isn't.

Keith Crown

Blue, Sky, Yellow

Keith Crown (1967). “Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967”

Seeing is such a privilege. Who notices the way the screech of a gull looks, the look of a gale, the sight of some fragrance?

Keith Crown

Sight, Vision, Looks

Keith Crown (1967). “Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967”

Anything can be any color at any time depending on what color everything else is at the time.

Keith Crown

Color, Colour

Keith Crown (1967). “Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967”

My problem is to bring together in a painting two seemingly conflicting, impossibly unmixable ideas. One is that the finished work shall evoke a sense of recognition, of the mysteriously familiar... the other is that in order to do the first I must deeply know my subject.

Keith Crown

Order, Ideas, Two