Jack Levine (January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010) was an American Social Realist painter and printmaker best known for his satires on modern life, political corruption, and biblical narratives. Read full biography of Jack Levine →
The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations... →
Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.
I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
I'm an outsider.
Impulses are hard to come by these days.
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
This acting was very hard work.
Jack Levine (January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010) was an American Social Realist painter and printmaker best known for his satires on modern life, political corruption, and biblical narratives.