Jack Levine
Jack Levine
Jack Levinewas an American Social Realist painter and printmaker best known for his satires on modern life, political corruption, and biblical narratives...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth3 January 1915
CountryUnited States of America
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Sex offenders don't wear a mark on their forehead
america beings clash compassion cultures difference divides human missing muslims plenty plight religious seen suffered thinking threat values viewed
Muslims were seen as a threat to religious values and survival. The difference between the Muslim-world and America is viewed as a clash of cultures by many. What's missing is empathy. Many human beings have plenty of compassion for the plight of their own people. It's the 'I've suffered more than you syndrome.' It's that kind of thinking that divides people.
knew level perfectly prison support took
He knew perfectly well that at some level there would be a lot of support for him, even if he went to prison or took his own life.
change learned
Sure, why not? You'll have to change the culture. But we've learned a lot about how to do that.
hands trying enough
I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?
communism
Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
character independent thinking
Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
men concerned conditions
I am primarily concerned with the condition of man,
different painting quiet
Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
art museums movement
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
dog littles way
I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way-under the hoop.
mean men want
As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
wish paint painter
I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
these-days impulse hard
Impulses are hard to come by these days.