“What interested these painters was evidently the fact that my clothes were torn off, which allowed them to paint a naked woman… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Makeup ignites a psychological transformation of both the wearer and the observer. My paintings sought to locate the subject of art within… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man. — Albert C. Barnes Copy Share Image
You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge,… — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very… — Clive Barker 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
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 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
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
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
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 walked across Tuscany from Siena to Rome, which was a lovely way to see the landscape. It was sunny but not… — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the… — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday… — Susan Rothenberg Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
My interest in art must have started with my Catholic upbringing. Art was everywhere: churches with its paintings, sculptures, stained glass, textiles,… — Cheech Marin Copy Share Image
The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal... But I just can't. You see, my paintings… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
As far as paintings go, I always think about what it's like to move them and hang them up and hope they… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
“... and people who have kids, people with husbands and jobs and mortgages, don't much want to hear about other people's paintings.” — Michele Young-Stone Copy Share Image
All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that… — Frank Stella 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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 paintings have a lot to do with the idea of seeing and doing, and the relationship between your hand and your… — Malcolm Morley Copy Share Image
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I love it when people come in my house and ask for my paintings off the wall, and I have to tell… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
