Paintings Quotes

553 Paintings quotes by 365 unique authors

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous. — Thomas A. Edison
Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father. — David Platt
The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a number of operas… — Emanuel Lasker
I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford. — Pablo Picasso
Like a guide dog, paintings help you see. — Martin Mull
You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based… — Tom Peters
The visual palette suggests the creepy pastel paintings of Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams); the fantasy battles with monsters and samurais echo the muscular landscapes of… — Richard Corliss
I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists are… — Bart Yates
Woven through Timothy J. Clark’s paintings are unique combinations of visual and emotional stimuli.His sense of space, light and composition combine to create graphic tensions… — Will Barnet
If politicians can't do it, I want to do it. We have to do it. Artists, put it in paintings. Poets, put it in poems,… — Michael Jackson
Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the caves… — Murray Gell-Mann
In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a matter… — Unknown Author
The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality more pure. There's… — Paddy Johnson
Some of the pictures are truly mysterious to me.. which is why I so often say publicly that I don't know or don't care what… — Susan Rothenberg
Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about… — John Guare
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit… — John Guare
I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something. — Gwen John
I'm expressing the feelings of mankind today through the Blue Dog. The dog is always having problems of the heart, of growing up, the problems… — George Rodrigue
I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm… — Michael Jackson
I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I'm painting with… — David Lynch
I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs… — Pablo Picasso
Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images. — Paul Auster
Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say… — Steve Guttenberg
The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers. — LeRoy Neiman
I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way things… — Thomas Kinkade

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