All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
I definitely am concerned with preservation. For me, what's interesting is the archival state, or how long oil paintings last. — Lucien Smith Copy Share Image
Music loud, I can't help but wiggle a bit and I think that movement finds its way into the paintings... I can… — Laura Harris Copy Share Image
I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
“I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The best way to begin is to say: 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have… — Balthus Copy Share Image
Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings. — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
I have two paintings that used to belong to my grandmother, who lived in Chicago. When I was young, I used to… — Marisol Nichols Copy Share Image
I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York… — Will Sergeant Copy Share Image
In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
When I look back at my paintings, they don't give me a sense of where I was when I first met that… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem… — David Hanson Copy Share Image
I started doing sculpture in 1959. I had no commissions then. They were painted, similar in style to the paintings... At a… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been… — Alison Goldfrapp Copy Share Image
I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever. — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
I always bought pictures, I only started to buy oil paintings when I started to make serious amounts of money because they… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have… — Balthus Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make paintings like giant musical chords, with a polyphony of colours that is nuts but works. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses -… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how… — Nate Lowman Copy Share Image
There were some types of sanctions that happen in the public world that made my work acceptable, where someone looks at the… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
Paintings don't just happen. I am not a proponent of the idea of an artist as someone who kind of magically makes… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
What really surprised me was how strange my paintings are anyway. To me, it's like, "Let's paint some portraits and some objects.… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings,… — Tom Yawkey Copy Share Image
I look at my paintings for a very long time before letting them out of my studio. I like to get on… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings… — Joan Mitchell Copy Share Image
My paintings used to be so realistic and I found it a little bit boring, especially now that I'm in New York.… — Nir Hod Copy Share Image
