Paintings Quotes

553 quotes by 375 authors

My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was… — 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 or with a… — David Bailey
My paintings are rubbish. — David Bailey
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. — Ansel Adams
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus
I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon. — Ezra Taft Benson
I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very… — Jacqueline Bisset
Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his… — Dan Brown
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting. — Albert Camus
I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That… — John le Carre
Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer. — Billy Carter
I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish… — Jimmy Carter
My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my… — Jimmy Carter
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. — Paul Cezanne
I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful. — Madonna Ciccone
All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid. — Chuck Close
I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people… — Chuck Close
I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of… — Joseph Dalton Hooker

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