Grant Wood Quotes

• Grant Wood / Painter

I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.

• Grant Wood / Painter

All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

• Grant Wood / Painter

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

• Grant Wood / Painter

You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.

• Grant Wood / Painter

Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, you all had great moments, but you never tasted the supreme triumph; you were never a farm boy riding in from the fields on a bulging rack of new-mown hay.

• Grant Wood / Painter

Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday life. It is the depth and intensity of an artist’s experience that are the first importance in art.