Quotes by Jack Levine

• 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.
• 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.
• This acting was very hard work.
• Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
• Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
• It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
• I'm an outsider.
• I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
• I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
• As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
• I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
• Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.