Paintings Quotes

553 Paintings quotes by 365 unique authors

My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings… — Ralph Allen
When you see paintings of some of the saints, or of Christ, they all have lights around their heads. What the painters are trying to… — Frederick Lenz
I've had phases where the compass point seems lost. It can happen for various reasons, among them, that you're trying to do something outside your… — Joe Bradley
Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well. — Joe Bradley
There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference as a pop… — Joe Bradley
When there's a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It's like if you go into a bar and there's a television… — Joe Bradley
The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange. — Oliver Jeffers
All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did… — Joseph Plaskett
My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly… — Burton Silverman
In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane Arbus,… — Burton Silverman
I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to… — Burton Silverman
I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up. — Jules Olitski
My Paintings are Battles. — Georg Baselitz
In Germany, we often hear the absurd complaint that museums don't have the money to buy paintings. Of course, I'm not talking about me and… — Georg Baselitz
The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color. — Paul Stanley
If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and… — Debbie Harry
When I was in the NFL, whenever I got cut from a team I would do paintings of the players, they would pay me $4,000… — Terry Crews
A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to… — Frank Gehry
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. — Vincent Van Gogh
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings… — Vincent Van Gogh
I like the transience of Klimt paintings. — Steve Coogan
I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what… — Chris Cornell
Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes… — Joan Didion
I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs,… — Bob Dylan
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered… — Brian Eno

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