Paintings Quotes · Page 8

With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.

— Samuel Barnett

Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from…

— Kehinde Wiley

There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.

— Elizabeth Peyton

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't…

— Anonymous

Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will…

— Charles Demuth

I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything…

— Cy Twombly

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.

— Ellsworth Kelly

Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.

— Frank Gehry

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big…

— LeRoy Neiman

The paintings don't exist outside themselves. There's no lead photograph off the internet or anything like that. It all comes from my…

— Nigel Cooke

If a film is good, and I'm sort of able to sit there and absorb myself within that world. And get lost.…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

It wasn't really until after I got out of art school that I realized that I'd been doing that sort of for…

— John Currin

Each painting is its own world, but a lot of times I do see the paintings as one page from a story.…

— Neil Farber

The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled…

— Brian Eno

My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour…

— Ralph Goings

[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these…

— Michael Craig-Martin

I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can…

— Dana Schutz

I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her…

— Shea Hembrey

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

There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should…

— Philip Pearlstein

My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses -…

— Katherine Dunn

I'm trying to make paintings like giant musical chords, with a polyphony of colours that is nuts but works.

— Roy Lichtenstein

I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted…

— Rainn Wilson

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have…

— Balthus

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

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a…

— Ellsworth Kelly

I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.

— Peter Doig

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

— Vladimir Nabokov

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone…

— Robert Musil

I always bought pictures, I only started to buy oil paintings when I started to make serious amounts of money because they…

— David Starkey

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

The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all…

— Michael Heizer

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

— Tom Robbins

The Louvre stopped buying paintings in 1848, and neither the Metropolitan nor the Hermitage acquire contemporary material.

— Neil MacGregor

I am very invested in the physical activity and the decision-making that is involved with making paintings - nothing else is quite…

— Stephen Beal

I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that…

— Burton Silverman

There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I…

— China Mieville

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

— Damien Hirst

“The paintings had a strange quality: they were figurative but there were no figures in them. They looked as if they might…

— Chaim Potok

'Certifiably Jonathan' contrives crises for its subject - a bid to get his paintings into MOMA, among others.

— Elvis Mitchell