Paintings Quotes · Page 4

I don't think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes.

— Julian Schnabel

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

— Chuck Close

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

— Lance Henriksen

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

— Rainn Wilson

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

— Julian Schnabel

If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

— Jeff Koons

“The most beautiful paintings in existence today are the ones which were not painted by anyone.”

— Karel Teige

I want to leave behind paintings and sculptures that can inspire someone.

— Janelle Monae

All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that…

— Frank Stella

My interest in art must have started with my Catholic upbringing. Art was everywhere: churches with its paintings, sculptures, stained glass, textiles,…

— Cheech Marin

The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal... But I just can't. You see, my paintings…

— Agnes Martin

“Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big,…

— Gerhard Richter

“What interested these painters was evidently the fact that my clothes were torn off, which allowed them to paint a naked woman…

— Margaret Atwood

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints…

— Jasper Johns

I don't see those paintings as abstractions, especially because they are emblems of the inkblot. They aren't smashed together; they are constructed…

— Kerry James Marshall

In a way, my paintings are like my children. They have many possibilities in life. You tell them, 'I believe that you're…

— Norbert Bisky

“On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger's considered view of…

— John Lanchester

“You can't dance to paintings. This is something Ben said, during one of our White Cube conversations, back when I was still…

— Sara Baume

'The Bradshaws' is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma - some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings…

— Richard Flanagan

Before they did all those shows on Jackson Pollock, I loved the way he formulated his paintings. I loved Basquiat - I…

— Matt Schulze

I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture…

— Jools Holland

“I hardly know her. It all comes back to the paintings. Her amazing and beautiful talent. Her sincerity. Her kindness. Her feistiness.…

— Ella Dominguez

Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.

— Walter Annenberg

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

— Mike Svob

I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

— Jackson Pollock

I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them.

— Tom Six

In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.

— Brad Holland

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.

— Agnes Martin

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

— Salvador Dali

I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.

— Mark Rothko

The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself.

— Gary Hume

Woman are like aesthetic paintings, each unique in their own way.

— John Miller

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

— Agnes Martin

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

— Julian Schnabel

The people I feel inspired around draw pictures, they make paintings.

— Aesop Rock

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

— Julian Schnabel

It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.

— Thomas Kinkade