John Piper (artist)

John Egerton Christmas Piper CH (13 December 1903 – 28 June 1992) was an English painter and printmaker.

Quotes

  • ...there is a striking similarity in the surrealist and abstract painters attitude to the object;both have a horror of it in its proper context.
    • Lost, A valuable object, in Myfanwy Piper's anthology-"The Painters Object" 1937
  • The right creative act makes its own laws,and always will do.
    • Foreword to Enid Verity's 'Colour' Frewin 1967 ISBN 009079110X
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