Paintings Quotes

553 Paintings quotes by 365 unique authors

I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self. — Mark Rothko
Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians. — Frank Stella
Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone… — Ai Weiwei
It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done. — Thomas Kinkade
Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression that such an… — Walter J. Phillips
In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded... — Walter J. Phillips
The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the… — John F. Carlson
Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen. — Robert Genn
Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention. — Robert Genn
Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations. — Robert Genn
I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire… — Robert Genn
In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience of… — Richard Schmid
I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings. — Richard Schmid
If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the… — Wayne Thiebaud
I am a famous artist. I make millions. But I frequently see debut shows of unknown artists with prices that are double of mine... what… — Mark Kostabi
I can't conceive of anything being more varied and rich and handsome than the planet Earth. And its crowning beauty is the natural world. I… — Robert Bateman
Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put… — Robert Bateman
It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters. — E. J. Hughes
I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings. — E. J. Hughes
The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches… — E. J. Hughes
It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of doors. — E. J. Hughes
I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes. — E. J. Hughes
My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph. — E. J. Hughes
I love you more than anybody in the world... I love you for millions and millions of things, clocks and vampires and dirty nails and… — Dylan Thomas
As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she offers her brimming… — John Muir

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