Ellie Lieberman Quotes

“... she wore a masterpiece smile with smudges of paint and graphite across her cheek, and her eyes were a Jackson Pollock painting.”

“Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.”

“Every good painter paints what he is.”

“The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.”

“My painting does not come from the easel.”

“No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.”

“I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.”

“Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.”

“The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.”

“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”