It is hard for a flat thing to understand a round one.

- Arthur Dove

Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which I wish to put dow…

- Arthur Dove

How do you feel about a person when you're talking over the phone? If you know them, or if you don't know them, do you get something, do you put that…

- Arthur Dove

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

- Arthur Dove

What constitutes American painting?... things may be in America, but it's what is in the artist that counts. What do we call 'American' outside of pa…

- Arthur Dove

We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.

- Arthur Dove

I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to be simplified in most cases to colour and force lines,…

- Arthur Dove

I would like to make something that is real in itself that does not remind anyone of any other things, and that does not have to be explained like th…

- Arthur Dove

I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature.

- Arthur Dove