Paintings Quotes

553 Paintings quotes by 365 unique authors

Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the caves… — Murray Gell-Mann
In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a matter… — Unknown Author
The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality more pure. There's… — Paddy Johnson
Some of the pictures are truly mysterious to me.. which is why I so often say publicly that I don't know or don't care what… — Susan Rothenberg
Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about… — John Guare
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit… — John Guare
I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something. — Gwen John
I'm expressing the feelings of mankind today through the Blue Dog. The dog is always having problems of the heart, of growing up, the problems… — George Rodrigue
I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm… — Michael Jackson
I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I'm painting with… — David Lynch
I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs… — Pablo Picasso
Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images. — Paul Auster
Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say… — Steve Guttenberg
The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers. — LeRoy Neiman
I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way things… — Thomas Kinkade
My paintings are loosely based on meta narratives. The pictures float in and out of pictorial genres. Still life's become personified, portraits become events, and… — Dana Schutz
Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and… — Keith Haring
There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop. — Peter Doig
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in… — Vincent Van Gogh
You ought to have seen FrÃ©dÃ©ric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already flamed, throwing it… — Unknown Author

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