Alan Bean Quotes

Alan Bean was an American astronaut and painter. He was the fourth person to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 12 mission. After leaving NASA, Bean dedicated himself to painting, creating stunning artworks that captured his experiences in space. His unique perspective as both an astronaut and an artist made him a notable figure in the world of space exploration.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

I found I have to stay painting.

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpain... -Alan Bean

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.

At one-sixth gravity in that suit, you have to mov... -Alan Bean

At one-sixth gravity in that suit, you have to move in a different way.

But I found that being an artist and doing accurat... -Alan Bean

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

I had the good fortune and the gift to be one of t... -Alan Bean

I had the good fortune and the gift to be one of the 12 men to walk on the moon.

I feel blessed every day when I'm working on these paintings... the first artist to ever go to another world and try to tell stories that people care about.

Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

Discovering the context

This quote envisions a future where human settlements or cities will be established and developed in outer space, suggesting a vision of space colonization and the expansion of human presence beyond Earth.

The moon is very rugged.

I do not believe that anyone from outer space has ... -Alan Bean

I do not believe that anyone from outer space has ever visited the Earth.

One of the great things about the universe is that... -Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

I can remember walking on the moon.

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

On Earth, I weighed 150 pounds; my suit and backpack weighed another 150. 300 pounds. Up there, I weighed only 50. So I could prance around on my toes. It was quite easy to do.

We're going through all the checklist, getting in position to make the entry and all that... And I think either Pete, Dick, or I said, 'Well, I wonder how those parachutes are doing?' And then someone else said... 'Well, we'll find out in about 55 minutes!'

If you remember back to some of the television we saw, Buzz and Neil on the Moon with Apollo 11. Black and white. They were bouncing around a lot. They were really bouncing on their tip toes. Quite fun to do.

As I ran along, I remember... saying to myself, 'You know, this is really the moon. We're really here... That's the Earth up there.' And I said it two or three times to myself.

Just like some day, say, 1000 years from now, when we can go to another star and see a planet, that's what we would do because we will know how to cure cancer, cure birth defects, so we would teach them.

It's hard not to be excited when you're going to f... -Alan Bean

It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.

I believe that 100, 200, 300 years from now, all these paintings will be around because they're the first paintings of humans doing things off this Earth.

It was hard for me to believe. I would look down and say, 'This is the moon, this is the moon,' and I would look up and say, 'That's the Earth, that's the Earth,' in my head. So, it was science fiction to us even as we were doing it.

I would say I had zero philosophical thoughts at that time. I was operating on a timed checklist that we've been trained to do, to try to maximize every really minute on the moon.

I have the nicest life in the world.

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the... -Alan Bean

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

Discovering the context

This quote reflects on the challenges faced during the mission to reach the moon, acknowledging the anticipated difficulty of the task but also expressing surprise at the magnitude of the obstacles encountered.

I was more of a person that liked flying and operating high-performance machinery, and I liked that, the skill it took, the intelligence it took to do that.

Alan Bean Quotes

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