Paintings Quotes

553 Paintings quotes by 365 unique authors

Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for a reason. They're… — Tina Fey
I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They… — Edward G. Robinson
Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings,… — Ursula Andress
Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke… — Unknown Author
My paintings are not meant to be tasted. — Max Ernst
My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business — Unknown Author
Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world… — Marcel Duchamp
I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite. — Vincent Gallo
I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make… — Christopher Meloni
The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also… — Clive Barker
I've been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist who's inspired me right now is a man named Hokusai and… — Renee O'Connor
Culture is the heritage of us all. some may be more interested than others in the treasures of the past, but no one can fail… — Unknown Author
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. All my… — Yayoi Kusama
The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead. — Carl Jung
There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of… — Nicholas D. Kristof
There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings? — Julian Schnabel
My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees,… — Alfred Stieglitz
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only… — Frank Stella
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. — Bridget Riley
I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way… — Robert Rauschenberg
I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended — Robert Rauschenberg
Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea… — Willem de Kooning
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by… — Giorgio Vasari
Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and… — Petrarch
The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later. — John Cage

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