25 Quotes by Jack Levine

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

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.

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

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

I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way-under the hoop.

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

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

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.