Paintings Quotes

553 Paintings quotes by 365 unique authors

When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a… — Arne Glimcher
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. — Freddie Mercury
Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then… — Jeanette Winterson
We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in… — Georges Bataille
Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with your portrait, Jeanne,… — Anais Nin
The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds in a life.… — Peter Cameron
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to… — William S. Burroughs
If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same… — Elizabeth Bishop
I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I can find worlds… — Neil Peart
Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets,… — Marilyn Manson
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point… — Jodi Picoult
I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than… — Vincent Van Gogh
The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather,… — Michelle Obama
The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin… — Irving Stone
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings. — Salvador Dali
The oversized chairs are white; the walls, covered with occasional landscape paintings, are white; and the plush carpet is the whitest of all. I'm insanely… — Wendy Mass
Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world,… — Pablo Picasso
I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with… — Elizabeth Kostova
It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one… — Robert Hughes
Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of… — Jay McInerney
He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like a cherub who'd… — Rick Riordan
In the far corner, a tenor began to sing, Zsadist's crystal-clear voice sailing up toward the warrior paintings on the ceiling far, far above them… — J R Ward
She knew, of course that she was being supremely unfair, that Franz was the best man she ever had- he was intelligent, he understood her… — Milan Kundera
The noblest calling in the world is motherhood. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can… — David O. McKay
It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought… — Alain de Botton

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