Alex Colville Quotes

United States, Painter
August 24, 1920 – July, 16, 2013.

David Alexander Colville, PC CC ONS was a Canadian painter. Born in 1920 in Toronto, Ontario, Colville moved with his family at age seven to St. Catharines, and then to Amherst, Nova Scotia in 1929. He attended Mount Allison University from 1938 to 1942, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.

I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.

Alex Colville
Anxiety is the normality of our age.

Alex Colville
- Age
- Anxiety
- Normality

My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.

Alex Colville
I don’t intend to be menacing, but I do think of life as being essentially dangerous. We never know what’s going to happen from one day to the next.

Alex Colville
- Life
- Dangerous
- Happen
I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.

Alex Colville
The universality of art, I suppose, always springs from the particular.

Alex Colville
It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.

Alex Colville
I don't think there's such a thing as an evil animal.

Alex Colville
- Evil
- Animal
- Thing

The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.

Alex Colville
- Man
- Woman
- Sees