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Painting Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe
- Fill a space in a beautiful way.
- Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because…
- Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of…
- When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.
- Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man? ...I…
- The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.
- Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes simplified…
- In the evening I go up in the desert and spend hours watching the sun go down, just enjoying it, and every day I go…
- I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
- I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
- It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but…
- I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.
More Painting Quotes
- My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested… — Dan Aykroyd
- 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
- My paintings are rubbish. — David Bailey
- Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. — Ansel Adams
- Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. — Balthus
- I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus
- The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus
- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
- Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs.… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd… — Jean-Michel Basquiat