Paintings Quotes

553 Paintings quotes by 365 unique authors

Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or… — Susan Sontag
The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it. — Mark Rothko
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets. — Paul Gauguin
I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the… — Agnes Martin
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think. — Agnes Martin
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
Man is certainly not creative, but his creativity should not be concerned with God. His creativity should be concerned with making a better world, a… — Rajneesh
She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not need any other… — Rajneesh
Whether you create, or you observe an objective piece of creativity, meditation should be the key. Without it, mind can only spread on the canvas… — Rajneesh
The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life. — Susan Rothenberg
Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them. — Paula Rego
I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison… — Yves Klein
My paintings are inspirational for they allow the observer to experience infinite viewpoints and perceptions. They are not abstract for they represent what is actually… — Freydoon Rassouli
I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides. — Susan Rothenberg
Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we… — Okakura Kakuzo
Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man. — Albert Barnes
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of; it heightens… — Joseph Addison
People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the… — Helen Fisher
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another. — William Shakespeare
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. — Nigel Dennis

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