Paintings Quotes

553 Paintings quotes by 365 unique authors

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have… — Arthur Rubinstein
The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by… — Salman Rushdie
Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style. — Jerry Saltz
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included. — Jerry Saltz
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. — Jerry Saltz
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings… — Jerry Saltz
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946,… — Jerry Saltz
After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings,… — Jerry Saltz
Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings… — Jerry Saltz
I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much… — Jerry Saltz
I like something about George W. Bush. A lot. After spending more than a decade having almost physiological-chemical reactions anytime I saw him, getting the… — Jerry Saltz
It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these… — Jerry Saltz
Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show… — Jerry Saltz
Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap… — Jerry Saltz
'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought… — Jerry Saltz
The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?' Rock is simple,… — Grace Slick
The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer. — Arthur Smith
Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film. — Sylvester Stallone
I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of… — Sylvester Stallone
In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is… — Martha Stewart
The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times,… — Lewis Thomas
I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them. — Kiana Tom
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am.… — Andy Warhol
Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown. — Rainn Wilson
When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings. — Alber Elbaz

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