Paintings Quotes · Page 5

I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.

— Richard Schmid

I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.

— Andy Warhol

Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn.

— David Luiz

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Every painting I've ever done has like 100 paintings under it.

— Amy Sillman

The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once.

— Nigel Cooke

At 18, I stood in the Louvre in front of the paintings that TV had first shown me.

— David Olusoga

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

— Yayoi Kusama

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and…

— Yayoi Kusama

You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge,…

— Mike Svob

I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the…

— James Rosenquist

I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium.…

— L. S. Lowry

I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday…

— Susan Rothenberg

I'm always looking at the computer. I make all of my work on the computer at some point or another. Almost all…

— Wade Guyton

“Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've…

— Natasha Trethewey

My paintings are inspirational for they allow the observer to experience infinite viewpoints and perceptions. They are not abstract for they represent…

— Freydoon Rassouli

I am still getting that love on 'The Walking Dead' for Daryl. I try to respond to everyone as much as I…

— Norman Reedus

I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in…

— John Lurie

I don't see those paintings as abstractions, especially because they are emblems of the inkblot. They aren't smashed together; they are constructed…

— Kerry James Marshall

Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then,…

— Ala Bashir

I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas…

— Jane Seymour

I have the '77 Million Paintings' running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I'll look up from what I'm…

— Brian Eno

It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

— Banksy

Even Andy never hung his own paintings. He'd sell them or put them in a box.

— Paul Morrissey

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

— St. Lucia

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

— Lorenz Hart

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

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

— Robert Indiana

No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer.

— Chuck Close

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

— Barry McGee

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

— Georges Seurat

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

— Frank Stella

The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.

— Edgar Degas

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended

— Robert Rauschenberg

I have a fairly good collection of paintings, both classical and contemporary.

— Mohanlal

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

— Nigel Dennis