My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Certainly we have bad paintings. We have only the greatest bad paintings. — Francoise Cachin Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the… — Cecily Brown 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
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
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
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
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
Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn't commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music... we'd still be living in sticks and… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“My eyes roved over the walls covered with my collages and prints of famous paintings. Magritte, Kandinsky, Kahlo. My origami shapes hung… — Heather Demetrios Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My paintings have an ongoing dialogue with photography. There are many painters who would say the same, I'm sure. The difference is… — James Nares Copy Share Image
I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn't know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do know… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“I love salmon. Of all my fishy friends, I love salmon the best. Or trout. Or tuna. Or smelts. Oh heck. I… — Mallory M. O'Connor Copy Share Image
“She didn't look up, her gaze focused entirely on the paper before her as she drew what looked like a wing. He… — Melanie Dobson Copy Share Image
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The thing I'm obsessed with is really great bad paintings. I have a storage locker full of them and I want to… — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
“SOME PAINTINGS become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely to be found… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“In 1969, both John and I began job hunting. I had finished my second master’s degree and started sending out resumes. I… — Mallory M. O'Connor Copy Share Image
Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it. — Eddie Cahill Copy Share Image
