“Matisse never hoped to save lives. But he repeatedly said that he wanted to make paintings so serenely beautiful that when one… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share Image
I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an… — Mary GrandPre Copy Share Image
You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values. — Theodore Robinson Copy Share Image
Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
The relationship between art and a job is not quite linear, but I really love any and all manifestations of art, really… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
Woven through Timothy J. Clark’s paintings are unique combinations of visual and emotional stimuli.His sense of space, light and composition combine to… — Will Barnet Copy Share Image
No one who looks at my paintings can see whether a painting is upside down or not anymore. I've made or developed… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Beauty has became a pejorative word in art. It was not something one should aspire to, because it was pedestrian. Beautiful things… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
Mom and I often talked about the trip we'd someday take together to the 'city of eternal spring' where she was born.… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Renaissance art. It's very direct. They're paintings that hit you in the face in the same immediate… — Sigrid Copy Share Image
There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal… — John Francis Copy Share Image
“Blacktivitiy" Bespattered with brilliant stars shining bright And suspended over the splendid, sable sea. Though all His works are wondrous beauties, God’s… — D.B. Mays Copy Share Image
My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas,… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
There are no statements in my paintings at all. Quite the opposite - I don't like people to go looking for them.… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
“Nor that he's regarding my face with the same intensity I am his. We're two paintings staring at each other across a… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Sol LeWitt had a huge influence on my work because of his use of repetition and his clarity, setting up a system… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
“I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.” — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Some films really do take years to get going, but I'd say that most of the films I want to do are… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter.… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects. — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Copy Share Image
I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that… — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
I am very invested in the physical activity and the decision-making that is involved with making paintings - nothing else is quite… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
The Louvre stopped buying paintings in 1848, and neither the Metropolitan nor the Hermitage acquire contemporary material. — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
