Maxfield Parrish Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Maxfield Parrish:

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maxfield-parrish-quotes/#0efff4cd

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maxfield-parrish-quotes/#5e97dc45

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maxfield-parrish-quotes/#c5d83e9c

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maxfield-parrish-quotes/#6ea4b9d1

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/maxfield-parrish-quotes/#eadbde27

Find Maxfield Parrish on Ebay!