His Paintings Quotes
17 quotes by 15 authors
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Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will start feeling sick,…
— Rajneesh
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If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.
— Jacqueline Roque
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In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed…
— Guillermo del Toro
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The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality more pure. There's…
— Paddy Johnson
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Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, “Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But you listen to…
— Marina Abramovic
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You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study...…
— Steven Pressfield
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The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at…
— Balthus
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Michael Jordan didn’t become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didn’t become a great painter because he dreamed…
— Jack D. Schwager
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Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you…
— Criss Jami
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Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and…
— Wim Wenders
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I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.
— Billy Childish
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Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before…
— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
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Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.
— Jerry Saltz
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It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946,…
— Jerry Saltz
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I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much…
— Jerry Saltz
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Before they did all those shows on Jackson Pollock, I loved the way he formulated his paintings. I loved Basquiat - I was into the…
— Matt Schulze
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Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.
— Eli Broad
Who Wrote These His Paintings Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 17 His Paintings Quotes as follows: