Gail Levin > Quotes

“The times are permanently bad…. To imagine a way of life that could be patched up is to think of the cosmos as a vast plumbing affair. To expect others to do what we are unable to do ourselves is truly to believe in miracles.”74”
― Gail Levin, Lee Krasner: A Biography

“I’m an artist—not a ‘woman artist’ not an ‘American artist.’”8”
― Gail Levin, Lee Krasner: A Biography

“A real man has no need of governments, of laws, of moral or ethical codes, to say nothing of battleships, police clubs, high-powered bombers and such things.”76”
― Gail Levin, Lee Krasner: A Biography

“And he would not see that the tints which he spread upon the canvas were drawn from the cheeks of her who sat beside him.” Poe”
― Gail Levin, Lee Krasner: A Biography

“When I see those big labels, ‘American,’ I know someone is selling something. I get very uncomfortable with any kind of chauvinism—male, French or American.”7”
― Gail Levin, Lee Krasner: A Biography