Paintings Quotes

553 Paintings quotes by 365 unique authors

I've been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist who's inspired me right now is a man named Hokusai and… — Renee O'Connor
Culture is the heritage of us all. some may be more interested than others in the treasures of the past, but no one can fail… — Unknown Author
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. All my… — Yayoi Kusama
The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead. — Carl Jung
There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of… — Nicholas D. Kristof
There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings? — Julian Schnabel
My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees,… — Alfred Stieglitz
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only… — Frank Stella
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. — Bridget Riley
I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way… — Robert Rauschenberg
I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended — Robert Rauschenberg
Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea… — Willem de Kooning
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by… — Giorgio Vasari
Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and… — Petrarch
The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later. — John Cage
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture,… — Jim Jarmusch
Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his part to play… — William Kurelek
I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of… — Balthus
I love getting my nails done. My mom's best friend is a manicurist. When I was little, she'd do little paintings on my nails, like… — Miranda Cosgrove
Women are important in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. But while their faces are seen everywhere- in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, - their voices are never heard. — Unknown Author

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