Book Quote by Rene Magritte

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

— Julian Schnabel

You go to Florence and all the paintings you've seen in books are there. To see them in real life, it just blows your…

— Anh Do

The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and…

— Anthony Browne

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended

— Robert Rauschenberg

I have a fairly good collection of paintings, both classical and contemporary.

— Mohanlal

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few...

— LeRoy Neiman

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have…

— H. R. Giger

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to…

— Howard Hodgkin

The paintings don't exist outside themselves. There's no lead photograph off the internet or anything like that. It all comes from my mind and…

— Nigel Cooke

There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where…

— Norbert Bisky

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir