I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities … - Morris Graves

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I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.

Morris Graves

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us towards the ultimate reality.

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It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.

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The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.

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It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.

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I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often need to be together. . . it's a painful conflict that will never be smoothly resolved.

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It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable. . . it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities. . . I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea.

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