Raphael Soyer Quotes

• Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.

  Raphael Soyer

  Kind, Certain, Brushes

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• If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.

  Raphael Soyer

  Art, People, Life And Time

  Raphael Soyer, Walter Gutman (1961). “Paintings and drawings”

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• From all that I have seen, I am more than ever convinced that art must communicate, and it must represent, describe and express people, their lives and times.

  Raphael Soyer

  Art, Communication, People

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• Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.

  Raphael Soyer

  Art, Feelings, Perception

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• If I don't paint for one day, I don't feel well physically or mentally.

  Raphael Soyer

  One Day, Routine, Paint

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