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Paintings Quotes by Henri Matisse
- 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…
- It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or…
- There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have…
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- My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested… — Dan Aykroyd
- All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time… — David Bailey
- My paintings are rubbish. — David Bailey
- Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. — Ansel Adams
- I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus
- I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs.… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- 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