Paintings Quotes
553 quotes by 375 authors
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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
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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
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My paintings are rubbish.
— David Bailey
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
— Ansel Adams
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
— Balthus
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
— Albert Camus
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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
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Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.
— Billy Carter
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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
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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
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
— Paul Cezanne
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I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.
— Madonna Ciccone
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All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
— Chuck Close
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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
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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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