Painting Quote by Barnett Newman Download Open image “I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.” — Barnett Newman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Painting Speak
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart. — Georgia O'Keeffe 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 are good… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them. — Tom Six Copy Share Image
I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
I don’t like to talk about what my paintings mean since they are so personal, so I like to leave it up to the… — Lori Earley Copy Share Image
I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away. — Alan Bean Copy Share Image
[I] don't want people to see it [paintings] as a specific intention on my part. If somebody has that interest in these objects, of… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible. — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
There are no statements in my paintings at all. Quite the opposite - I don't like people to go looking for them. If something… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own… — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
I think I'm a guy who can get into the paint, make plays and obviously distribute and make plays for other guys, too. — Kevin Huerter Copy Share Image
“Love them all," said Renoir. "That is the secret, young man. Love them all." The painter let go of his arm and shrugged. "Then,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. — William Blake Copy Share Image
“He unfixes the metal notch and slips his hand around the body of the bird. Feels its heat, its small heart beating. He stares… — Nina Schuyler Copy Share Image
I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating. — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
“Your soul is your paintbrush, your world is your canvass, your life is your masterpiece.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
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