Jack Levine Quotes

I’m the little dog who goes the wrong way – under the hoop.

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

Now painting is different. It’s something recollected in tranquility.

This acting was very hard work.

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

I’m an outsider.

As far as I’m concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

Ah, but it’s nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody’s throat.

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.