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Paintings Quotes by Chuck Close
- All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
- 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…
- Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.
- Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
- I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger…
- No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer.
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- My paintings are rubbish. — David Bailey
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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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- The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book… — Ezra Taft Benson
- I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I… — Jacqueline Bisset
- Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many… — Dan Brown
- It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting. — Albert Camus
- I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they… — John le Carre