Paintings Quotes

553 Paintings quotes by 365 unique authors

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this expression… — Richard Diebenkorn
Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, â€œDo you ever know what the birds are singing? You donâ€™t. But you listen to… — Marina Abramovic
Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner. — E. O. Wilson
It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects. — James Turrell
Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets. — Eric Carle
Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of… — Barbara Ann Kipfer
You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study...… — Steven Pressfield
I've been a huge Psychedelic Furs fan for a long time. I love Butler's paintings, too. I like all their songs. I'll even crank 'Pretty… — Norman Reedus
My Dad always told me that casting agencies are like artists picturing their paintings in their mind. They know what they want for a role… — Miley Cyrus
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing… — Edgar Degas
Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are.… — Ad Reinhardt
Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less… — Gene Logsdon
I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by… — Georg Baselitz
I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire… — William T. Wiley
You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind… — Mark Rothko
All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see… — Frank Stella
I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get… — Howard Hodgkin
If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of… — Jackson Pollock
I am trying to heighten my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things, trying to establish a pantheistic contact with the tremor and flow… — Franz Marc
The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at… — Balthus

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