Paintings Quotes

553 Paintings quotes by 365 unique authors

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half. — Lorenz Hart
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But… — James M. Cain
I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions. — Rachel Roy
The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world Iâ€™ve created for myself. — Unknown Author
Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange… — Simon Schama
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 fleshâ€“ 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

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