Maxfield Parrish Quotes

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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
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 today. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back.

Maxfield Parrish
Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!

Maxfield Parrish
I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able.

Maxfield Parrish
The whole question of pictures made to order is a darn peculiar form of merchandize. Buyers seem to like the tiresome MP blue, for one thing, and girls having a pleasant chat for another. They must look pleasant like Daybreak and Garden of Allah and not contemplative like Hilltop, Stars and Dreaming, which are not so popular.... There are countless artists whose shoes I'm not worthy to polish — whose prints would not pay the printer!... I'm beginning to doubt my judgment!

Maxfield Parrish
There is an implied warranty that a commissioned work should last a lifetime. There is to be no charge.

Maxfield Parrish