Paintings Quotes

553 Paintings quotes by 365 unique authors

In thinking of light, if we can think about what it can do, and what it is, by thinking about itself, not about what we… — James Turrell
Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print. — Chuck Close
We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the average person means… — Jacque Fresco
My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings of them, which… — Joan Mitchell
My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint. — Joan Mitchell
I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves. — Barnett Newman
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression — Richard Diebenkorn
Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science. — Georges Seurat
But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's… — Norman MacCaig
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was… — Josef Albers
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to… — Ikue Mori
If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into… — Duane Michals
You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not… — H R Giger
In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed… — Guillermo del Toro
Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by. — James Rosenquist
It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means. — James Rosenquist
In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself. — James Rosenquist
Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold… — Eric Idle
Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality. — Diego Rivera
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels,… — Alasdair Gray
Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer. — Edward Kasner
The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of… — Curt Sachs
I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature. — Arthur Dove
I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well… — Kurt Schwitters

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