Paintings Quotes

553 Paintings quotes by 365 unique authors

Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I… — Lucas Neff
When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to… — Chris Ofili
When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be… — Chris Ofili
I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just… — Albert Oehlen
If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word 'just' is not so good, but… — Albert Oehlen
When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like… — Edward Ruscha
I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the time just so… — Nikki Reed
By means of the iconic, artists express their view of reality and show their understanding of the structure of reality. They see what they know… — Hans Rookmaaker
Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you… — Criss Jami
People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then… — Julie Mehretu
There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of… — China Mieville
I was a student, and as such you generally rely on prior models of how to make art, but these were not satisfying. Then I… — Gerhard Richter
The smudging makes the paintings a bit more complete. When they're not blurred, so many details seem wrong, and the whole thing is wrong too.… — Gerhard Richter
The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look out of the… — Gerhard Richter
If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning. — Gerhard Richter
The grey paintings, for example, a painted grey surface, completely monochromatic - they come from a motivation, or result from a state, that was very… — Gerhard Richter
The political topicality of my October paintings means almost nothing to me, but in many reviews it is the first or only thing that arouses… — Gerhard Richter
And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s (paintings from black-and-white… — Gerhard Richter
I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something down at random.… — Gerhard Richter
The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush. It was only… — Gerhard Richter

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