Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

- 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 for the human race.

- Jack Levine

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

- Jack Levine

I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

- Jack Levine

I'm an outsider.

- Jack Levine

Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.

- Jack Levine

I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.

- Jack Levine

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

- Jack Levine

As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

- Jack Levine

This acting was very hard work.

- Jack Levine

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

- Jack Levine

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

- Jack Levine

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

- Jack Levine