Paintings Quotes · Page 9

I think 'Les Demoiselles D'Avignon' is one of the most transfixing paintings of all time. And it was made by a monster…

— Bari Weiss

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

— Jimmy Carter

I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.

— David Furnish

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine,…

— Andy Warhol

It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.

— E. J. Hughes

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

— Balthus

I'm interested in how paintings can change or transform - sometimes through close examination or viewed from afar; or how they hold…

— Stephen Beal

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression

— Richard Diebenkorn

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

Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings,…

— Tom Yawkey

My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings…

— Joan Mitchell

I look at my paintings for a very long time before letting them out of my studio. I like to get on…

— Sean Scully

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

I start out making my paintings for me. I don't see it as a form of communication. Until, of course, after they…

— John Lurie

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And…

— Amy Bloom

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time…

— David Bailey

“I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.”

— Scott McClanahan

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

— Lucian Freud

Sol LeWitt had a huge influence on my work because of his use of repetition and his clarity, setting up a system…

— Glenn Ligon

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter.…

— Damien Hirst

I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to…

— Julian Schnabel

Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an…

— Sylvester Stallone

Some films really do take years to get going, but I'd say that most of the films I want to do are…

— Richard Linklater

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

— Neil MacGregor

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

— Tom Robbins

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

— Burton Silverman

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

— Stephen Beal

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

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

— Elvis Mitchell

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

I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in…

— Kathryn Lasky

I have two paintings that used to belong to my grandmother, who lived in Chicago. When I was young, I used to…

— Marisol Nichols

I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of…

— Robert Barry

The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and…

— Werner Herzog

I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York…

— Will Sergeant

In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in…

— Colm Toibin

It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how…

— Nate Lowman

There were some types of sanctions that happen in the public world that made my work acceptable, where someone looks at the…

— Julian Schnabel