Paintings Quotes

553 Paintings quotes by 365 unique authors

The image of how power shows itself to the public is important... CNN was an inspiration to do the project in color because power confirms… — Carl De Keyzer
There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments… — Mary Leakey
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… — Henri Matisse
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration. — Gavin Rossdale
Ancient rock paintings remind us that there are no unclaimed lands, that people have always lived here. They are wayposts along the river journey to… — Lynn Culbreath Noel
Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls. — John Hart
Painting is the making of an analogy for something non-visual and incomprehensible - giving it form and bringing it within reach. And that is why… — Gerhard Richter
But I have a problem with the term 'light'. I never in my life knew what to do with that. I know that people have… — Gerhard Richter
That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by… — David Amram
Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you? — Andy Warhol
In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later, to give him… — Oriana Fallaci
Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it. — Steven Bochco
There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating. — Louis Leakey
Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**. — Chuck Close
I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached… — Tom Wesselmann
Just watching a girl can give me the best reason to smile. Girls are something very special and you got to treat them that way.… — Michael Jackson
I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the hair from the… — James Rosenquist
My cubist paintings are my most Mexican. — Diego Rivera
This is another world to the ones most Australians know. It was explained by my father once that it's like a blanket on the ground.… — Hetti Perkins
Art begs you to notice it. Why? Because art is God's way of saying hello. So pay attention to poetry. Pay attention to music. Pay… — Neale Donald Walsch

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