Paintings Quotes

553 Paintings quotes by 365 unique authors

They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some… — Terry Pratchett
I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great… — Anne Rice
If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the… — John Green
Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through. — Jim C. Hines
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and… — William Shakespeare
She looked up at the sky, now tinged with orange. "Please live. Talk, think, act. And sometimes listen to music..." She stopped briefly. "Look at… — Koushun Takami
Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death,… — Vincent Van Gogh
A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in… — Alicia Alonso
You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls… — Merce Cunningham
Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind… — Doris Humphrey
Worry, about the 'thousand and one' details entailed. My one-track mind has to be relieved of these worries completely or I cannot get started working… — E. J. Hughes
I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas… — Kurt Vonnegut
My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery. — Richard Phillips
Makeup ignites a psychological transformation of both the wearer and the observer. My paintings sought to locate the subject of art within the manipulation of… — Richard Phillips
The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and sculptors… — Michael Heizer
I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into… — Dana Schutz
What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way. — Peter Doig
I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person. — Marion Bartoli
To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of… — Robert Irwin
I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I… — John Francis

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