Paintings Quotes

Like a guide dog, paintings help you see.

— Martin Mull

My Paintings are Battles.

— Georg Baselitz

I give away thousands of paintings for free.

— Banksy

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

— Stephane Mallarme

My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.

— Diego Rivera

It's hard to live just by selling paintings.

— Ben Eine

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

— Yves Klein

In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.

— James Rosenquist

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

— Irving Stone

One of my favorite paintings I've done happened after I broke up with a boyfriend.

— Carly Chaikin

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

— Albert Camus

Once there were 'outside' and 'inside' paintings-now there is no difference.

— Fred Williams

“Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move. ”

— Anonymous

I had earlier done a few paintings on Durga because I am fascinated by her.

— Sushmita Sen

The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.

— Zaha Hadid

You go to Florence and all the paintings you've seen in books are there. To see them in real life, it just…

— Anh Do

If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at…

— Jackson Pollock

Willem de Kooning paintings are a language to be learned. When they were first shown, they were ridiculed as being just drips…

— Glenn Ligon

Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid…

— Jerry Saltz

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to…

— Julian Schnabel

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

— Jerry Saltz

I have been painting models with black and brown skin only for the past years. So, I did already have this experience,…

— Kehinde Wiley

I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas…

— Jane Seymour

I have the '77 Million Paintings' running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I'll look up from what I'm…

— Brian Eno

Often, I find it really hard to see what I'm doing when I'm in the thick of things. I can get too…

— Cecily Brown

“When it comes to forming opinions on works of art, people look to others. Most people end up liking paintings, songs and…

— Abhaidev

Most people respond to my paintings quite generously, but there have been cases where I think people - a few critics in…

— April Gornik

The thing about a plant is, let's say it will have 50 or 100 little points of bright red. If you look…

— Robert Irwin

Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge…

— Miguel Nicolelis

The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual…

— Paul Bloom

“[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of…

— Alain de Botton

“The image titled “The Homeless, Psalm 85:10,” featured on the cover of ELEMENTAL, can evoke multiple levels of response. They may include…

— Aberjhani

“Some paintings become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely to be found…

— Aldo Leopold

The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were…

— Irving Stone

I think the films and the paintings erase each other. The paintings are extremely slow and constantly going on in the studio…

— Sarah Morris

To me, paintings are about beauty. They are very feminine, and beauty is something very feminine. For a long time, people would…

— Nir Hod

I love the art history ones because it's so little work for me. There's so many paintings that when I look at…

— Mallory Ortberg

“There is nothing to be found in human eyes, and that is their terrifying and dolorous enigma, their abominable and delusive charm.…

— Jean Lorrain