Paintings Quotes · Page 8

'Certifiably Jonathan' contrives crises for its subject - a bid to get his paintings into MOMA, among others.

— Elvis Mitchell

“The paintings had a strange quality: they were figurative but there were no figures in them. They looked as if they might…

— Chaim Potok

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

— Damien Hirst

There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I…

— China Mieville

“We don't see the world as a botanist who is at the same time an architect, a physician, a geologist, and a…

— Sten Nadolny

The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we…

— Anthony Browne

My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates,…

— Thomas Kinkade

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives…

— Orhan Pamuk

I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are…

— Jerry Saltz

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject…

— Tom Wesselmann

“How may paintings have preserved the image of a divine beauty which in its natural manifestation has been rapidly overtaken by time…

— Leonardo da Vinci

For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series.…

— Damien Hirst

I start out making my paintings for me. I don't see it as a form of communication. Until, of course, after they…

— John Lurie

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And…

— Amy Bloom

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time…

— David Bailey

I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of…

— Robert Barry

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings.

— Neil Farber

Incorporating an awareness of style in the paintings gives them a kind of electricity and holds them together. It can plug you…

— Rob Pruitt

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine,…

— Andy Warhol

It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.

— E. J. Hughes

Despite all the efforts of art dealers, the number of Rembrandts existing at a given time is limited; yet such paintings are…

— Ronald Coase

I think 'Les Demoiselles D'Avignon' is one of the most transfixing paintings of all time. And it was made by a monster…

— Bari Weiss

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

— Jimmy Carter

I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.

— David Furnish

I'm interested in how paintings can change or transform - sometimes through close examination or viewed from afar; or how they hold…

— Stephen Beal

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

— Balthus

There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.

— Elizabeth Peyton

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't…

— Anonymous

I love it when people come in my house and ask for my paintings off the wall, and I have to tell…

— The-Dream

With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.

— Samuel Barnett

Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from…

— Kehinde Wiley

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

— Paul Cezanne

The paintings have a lot to do with the idea of seeing and doing, and the relationship between your hand and your…

— Malcolm Morley

I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can…

— Dana Schutz

I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her…

— Shea Hembrey

Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.

— Frank Gehry

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.

— Ellsworth Kelly

Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will…

— Charles Demuth

I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything…

— Cy Twombly