Paintings Quotes · Page 2

I love films-they are like paintings.

— Azzedine Alaia

My paintings are so legible, I feel guilty.

— Doris McCarthy

My paintings are not meant to be tasted.

— Max Ernst

None of my paintings I would say are religious.

— Akiane Kramarik

If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I don't remember how many paintings I have made.

— Bhumika Chawla

Most early Icelandic paintings are landscapes.

— Hallgrimur Helgason

When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.

— Kate Micucci

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

— H. R. Giger

I saw Frank Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his paintings. They're so amazing.

— Jason Momoa

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.

— Eddie Cahill

I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.

— Samuel Barnett

Certainly we have bad paintings. We have only the greatest bad paintings.

— Francoise Cachin

Girls Are Like Abstract Paintings Even Though you Cant Understand Them Still They are Beautiful !!

— Karal

My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy,

— H. R. Giger

Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century.

— Rebecca Miller

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

— Peter Doig

I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.

— Marion Bartoli

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like…

— Dennis Hopper

My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based…

— Richard Phillips

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

— Gloria Vanderbilt

I love getting my nails done. My mom's best friend is a manicurist. When I was little, she'd do little paintings on…

— Miranda Cosgrove

I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but…

— Wassily Kandinsky

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I've dreamed landscapes for years, and my dreams play an enormous role in my work. In fact, when I first started doing…

— April Gornik

When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I…

— John Berger

I counterfeited Mark Kostabi's artworks. During the eighties, Mark didn't paint his own paintings. Instead, he had other artists painting them, and…

— Andy Behrman

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live…

— Bob Dylan

I often avoid using the terms 'figuration' and 'abstraction' because I've always tried to have it both ways. I want the experience…

— Cecily Brown

You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings,…

— Lee Krasner

I can't conceive of anything being more varied and rich and handsome than the planet Earth. And its crowning beauty is the…

— Robert Bateman

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very…

— Clive Barker

“This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn't know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do know…

— Iain Pears

“I was reading about animals a while back and there was this motherfucking scientist in France back in the thirties or forties…

— Cheryl Strayed

“She didn't look up, her gaze focused entirely on the paper before her as she drew what looked like a wing. He…

— Melanie Dobson

“I love salmon. Of all my fishy friends, I love salmon the best. Or trout. Or tuna. Or smelts. Oh heck. I…

— Mallory M. O'Connor

“Noa sleeps with the curtains open, allowing as much moonlight as possible to flood her bedroom, allowing her to see each and…

— Menna van Praag

“I don't want these. They're mud and they've got no color. Or at least the color is different from what I'm used…

— Mark Helprin

My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual,…

— Alexej von Jawlensky

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

— Aldo Leopold