Paintings Quotes · Page 6

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

— Amy Sillman

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

— Vincent Van Gogh

The fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all.

— Mary Pratt

The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.

— Damien Hirst

Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films.

— Yves Saint Laurent

I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.

— Cy Twombly

Lot's and lot's I am a proud man having so many fans of my work: (Paintings and films)

— Tom Six

It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.

— Thomas Kinkade

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

— Jerry Saltz

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid…

— Jerry Saltz

Willem de Kooning paintings are a language to be learned. When they were first shown, they were ridiculed as being just drips…

— Glenn Ligon

You go to Florence and all the paintings you've seen in books are there. To see them in real life, it just…

— Anh Do

If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at…

— Jackson Pollock

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

— Peter Doig

I have been painting models with black and brown skin only for the past years. So, I did already have this experience,…

— Kehinde Wiley

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 can't conceive of anything being more varied and rich and handsome than the planet Earth. And its crowning beauty is the…

— Robert Bateman

I often avoid using the terms 'figuration' and 'abstraction' because I've always tried to have it both ways. I want the experience…

— Cecily Brown

You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings,…

— Lee Krasner

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live…

— Bob Dylan

I love CG - it's a great tool. I just don't think you should use it to replace reality; you should use…

— Neil Marshall

I used to do stop motion in my own garage and Claymation and all that stuff. That led to doing backgrounds and…

— Robert Stromberg

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

— Jonathan Winters

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

— Julian Schnabel

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

— Siri Hustvedt

“Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?”

— Virgil

I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore.

— Terri Windling

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

— Madonna Ciccone

Do cave paintings mean anything? Not really, but I, for one, am happy to have them.

— Trevor Paglen

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.

— Gerhard Richter

I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.

— Robert Indiana

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

— Barnett Newman

I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings.

— Steven Soderbergh

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

— Freddie Mercury

I love art, in particular, paintings. I have, well, a lot.

— Domenico Dolce

The sheer number of paintings of unconscious women is distressing.

— Hannah Gadsby

Painting is a solitary act for me; I don't need anyone around to make paintings.

— Danny Fox