Albert Pinkham Ryder Quotes

Enjoy the top 10 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Albert Pinkham Ryder.

“The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.”
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Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

“The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?”

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

“Who hath seen the Phantom Ship,
Her lordly rise and lowly dip,
Careering o'er the lonesome main,
No port shall know her keel again ...
Ah, woe is in the awful sight,
The sailor finds there eternal night,
'Neath the waters he shall ever sleep,
And Ocean will the secret keep”

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

“It is the first vision that counts. The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other ... for no two visions are alike, and those who reach the heights have all toiled up steep mountains by a different route. To each has been revealed a different panorama.”

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

“The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.”

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

“The new is not revealed to those whose eyse are fastened in worship upon the old.”

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

“The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.”