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Maxfield Parrish Quotes

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.

Maxfield Parrish
Beautiful, Light, Color
Letter to F.W Weber in 1950. "Maxfield Parrish". Book by Coy L. Ludwig, 1973.

There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.

Maxfield Parrish
Artist, Shoes, Boots

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

Maxfield Parrish
Space, Light, Air
Letter to F.W Weber, 1950.

Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!

Maxfield Parrish
Art, God Knows, Explanation
Said to William O. Chessman on March 27, 1936. "Maxfield Parrish". Book by Coy L. Ludwig, 1973.

I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able.

Maxfield Parrish
Girl, Art, Men
Maxfield Parrish, Alma Gilbert-Smith, Joyce Stoner, Trust for Museum Exhibitions (2005). “Maxfield Parrish: master of make-believe”, Philip Wilson Publishers

I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace!... Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.

Maxfield Parrish
Appreciation, Artist, People
Maxfield Parrish, Alma Gilbert-Smith, Joyce Stoner, Trust for Museum Exhibitions (2005). “Maxfield Parrish: master of make-believe”, Philip Wilson Publishers

Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back.

Maxfield Parrish
Thank You, Thinking, Color
Maxfield Parrish, Alma Gilbert-Smith, Joyce Stoner, Trust for Museum Exhibitions (2005). “Maxfield Parrish: master of make-believe”, Philip Wilson Publishers

There is an implied warranty that a commissioned work should last a lifetime. There is to be no charge.

Maxfield Parrish
Lasts, Lifetime, Should
Maxfield Parrish, Alma Gilbert-Smith, Joyce Stoner, Trust for Museum Exhibitions (2005). “Maxfield Parrish: master of make-believe”, Philip Wilson Publishers

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