Top 6 Morris Graves Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us towards the ultimate reality.”

— Morris Graves

2. “It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.”

— Morris Graves

3. “It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.”

— Morris Graves

4. “The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep ‘flowing,’ but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.”

— Morris Graves

5. “I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world – to pronounce it – and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.”

— Morris Graves

6. “Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! – They will this time be dismissed only by being painted out...”

— Morris Graves

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