"Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never a…"

"The whole question of pictures made to order is a darn peculiar form of merchandize. Buyers seem to like the tiresome…"

"I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen …"

"Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!"

"How do ideas come? What a question! If they come of their own accord, they are apt to arrive at the most unexpected t…"

"It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a wh…"

"There is an implied warranty that a commissioned work should last a lifetime. There is to be no charge."

"I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! ... Current appreciation of my work is a bit…"

"Maxfield Parrish was certainly one of our most prominent illustrators and hardly a home in America existed that didn’…"

"However rationalistic his motives, Parrish's elaborately artificial methods give his pictures a good deal of aura and…"