Paintings Quotes

553 Paintings quotes by 365 unique authors

I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums depicted in… — Unknown Author
Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas… — H R Giger
We all know that men in moderate circumstances can have just as comfortable houses as the richest, just as comfortable clothing, just as good food.… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in… — Unknown Author
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first… — Christopher McDougall
This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe… — Swami Vivekananda
Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things… — E E Cummings
If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this… — Pablo Picasso
I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford… — Andrew Motion
Like it or not, people tend to buy paintings to match their drapes, couch or carpet. I know you want them to be so overwhelmed… — Jack White
Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A. — Walter Annenberg
One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up. — Cleo Moore
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter — Lucian Freud
I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artistâ€¦..I had lost all interest in the art shown… — Jean Dubuffet
Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the… — Susan Sontag
A lot of what I do is about being in the moment and I think that's hard for people to get. I like it when… — Julian Schnabel
My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however influenced… — Julian Schnabel
If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall. — Julian Schnabel
My paintings are wiser than I am. — Gerhard Richter
To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what… — Gerhard Richter

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