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I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.) — Gerhard Richter
Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical. — Cy Twombly
My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it… — George Grosz
It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and… — Edvard Munch
By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was… — Edvard Munch
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor — Edvard Munch
What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But what kind? Will… — Marc Chagall
Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it. — Eddie Cahill
What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand. — Eugene Delacroix
I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to… — Henri Matisse
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. — Robert Indiana
Gas Lights - Without Oil, Tallow, Wicks or Smoke. It is not necessary to invite attention to the gas lights by which my salon of… — Rembrandt Peale
I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto. — Georg Baselitz
The advice I would give to any photographer - young, old or in-between - is to explore anything visual because this is, after all, how… — Elliott Erwitt
Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself. — Frida Kahlo
Painters make paintings, but it takes a representative of the art-world to make a work of art. — Richard Wollheim
My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour and space are… — Ralph Goings
I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a job in a… — Ralph Goings
Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember. — Siri Hustvedt
About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of fabric like those… — Sonia Delaunay
Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half. — Lorenz Hart
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But… — James M. Cain
I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions. — Rachel Roy
The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself. — Unknown Author
Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange… — Simon Schama

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