Paintings Quotes · Page 5

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

— Jonathan Winters

“Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?”

— Virgil

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

— Siri Hustvedt

Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films.

— Yves Saint Laurent

I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.

— Cy Twombly

The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.

— Damien Hirst

The fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all.

— Mary Pratt

Lot's and lot's I am a proud man having so many fans of my work: (Paintings and films)

— Tom Six

Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man.

— Albert C. Barnes

Makeup ignites a psychological transformation of both the wearer and the observer. My paintings sought to locate the subject of art within…

— Richard Phillips

Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are…

— Antony Beevor

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston,…

— Jasper Johns

The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to…

— Lucian Freud

'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and…

— LeRoy Neiman

My paintings capture the humor, zaniness, and depth of the Batman villains as well as the Freudian motivations of Batman as an…

— Adam West

I've been working with Disney all these years doing voice work, and now I'm signed with Disney Fine Arts, doing 'Beauty and…

— Paige O'Hara

Only about one per cent of my paintings show family members. Do they help me deal with problems? It's likely that these…

— Gerhard Richter

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more…

— Cecily Brown

Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized…

— Georges Braque

Gray goes with gold. Gray goes with all colors. I've done gray-and-red paintings, and gray and orange go so well together. It…

— Ellsworth Kelly

“Continuo a vender alguns quadros através da galeria de Nice, é certo, mas tenho sempre dificuldade em desfazer-me das telas e sobretudo…

— Rui Carruço

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my…

— Ray Bradbury

Some of the pictures are truly mysterious to me.. which is why I so often say publicly that I don't know or…

— Susan Rothenberg

I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a…

— Pablo Picasso

Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.

— Robert Indiana

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

— Barnett Newman

Painting is a solitary act for me; I don't need anyone around to make paintings.

— Danny Fox

The sheer number of paintings of unconscious women is distressing.

— Hannah Gadsby

I love art, in particular, paintings. I have, well, a lot.

— Domenico Dolce

I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings.

— Steven Soderbergh

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

— Freddie Mercury

I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore.

— Terri Windling

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.

— Gerhard Richter

I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

Do cave paintings mean anything? Not really, but I, for one, am happy to have them.

— Trevor Paglen

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

— Madonna Ciccone

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

— Robert Indiana

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

— Cy Twombly

Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.

— Benjamin Franklin

There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.

— Peter Doig