Kind Quote by Balthus

Certainly we have bad paintings. We have only the greatest bad paintings.

— Francoise Cachin

My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however…

— Julian Schnabel

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

— H. R. Giger

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'

— Gerhard Richter

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

— Joyce Cary

All my life I have painted pictures so that certain people would drop dead when they looked at them, but I have not succeeded…

— Man Ray

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking…

— Brian Eno

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to…

— Simon Schama

The second painting of the Painter, will come out better than the first one.

— Hemistich

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees

— Mark Rothko