Painting Quote by Robert Rauschenberg Download Open image “I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended” — Robert Rauschenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Painting Way
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
Certainly we have bad paintings. We have only the greatest bad paintings. — Francoise Cachin Copy Share Image
I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them. — Peter Webber Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus Copy Share Image
Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting, — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art.… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I don't really trust ideas, especially good ones. Rather I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi, most of them no bigger than a tea tray. Their thin browns, ashy grays, and muted blues made people speak softly to one another, as if a shouted word might curdle one of the paintings and… — Steve Martin Copy Share
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.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts. — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
I think I'm a guy who can get into the paint, make plays and obviously distribute and make plays for other guys, too. — Kevin Huerter Copy Share Image
“Love them all," said Renoir. "That is the secret, young man. Love them all." The painter let go of his arm and shrugged. "Then,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. — William Blake Copy Share Image
“He unfixes the metal notch and slips his hand around the body of the bird. Feels its heat, its small heart beating. He stares at the bird's bright orange eyes. Like the color of the bird's wings in the painting. Or the small touch of lichen on the rock by the Japanese woman's foot. Natalia did not truly see the… — Nina Schuyler Copy Share
I love painting. I love writing. I love creating and being around people who are creating. — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
“Your soul is your paintbrush, your world is your canvass, your life is your masterpiece.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
