Stuart Davis

“I don't paint things. I only paint the differences between things.”

“Art is a part of the spiritual decoration of the world.”

“I paint what I see in America, in other words I paint the American scene.”

“The act of painting is a celebration of the world.”

“Art is the tangible expression of the human spirit.”

“A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.”

“I was a modernist, but I was an American modernist. I wasn’t a French modernist.”

“The artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go along with it.”

“Art is not a matter of taste, but a matter of conviction.”

“The content of my pictures is an expression of my perception of the American scene.”

“Jazz has been the great American art.”