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 a business, painting, and as in all business, you've got to please your customers.”

“There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not sell a dozen copies in one year. We all have to find our own level. Mine is a low-brow artist, and I'm proud of it.”

“I want to paint pictures that will be in harmony with the home, pictures that people will want to live with.”

“I am a mechanic who paints.”

“The harder you work, the luckier you get.”

“I get an awful lot of my inspiration from nature, but I don't photograph it. It's my own private nature.”

“Daybreak is a joyous event.”

“The trouble with me is that I am a perfectionist.”

“I don't paint from nature. I compose from it.”

“I live in a fairyland, but it's my own fairyland.”