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How do ideas come? What a question! If they come of their own accord, they are apt to arrive at the most unexpected time and place.

— Maxfield Parrish Letter to F.W Weber (1950)

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I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! ... Current appreciation of my work is a bit "highbrow", I've always considered myself a popular artist.

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

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.

Letter to F.W Weber (1950)

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

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 allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers today. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back.

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