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 there…

- John Marin

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 lit…

- John Marin

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

- John Marin

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

- John Marin

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.

- John Marin

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

- John Marin

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 p…

- John Marin

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 th…

- John Marin

Where the perhapses are found something has to be done about it and since art deals in the perhapses & maybe sos why not call it the consummate scien…

- John Marin