Art And Paintings Quotes
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Like a guide dog, paintings help you see.
— Martin Mull
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.
— Jerry Saltz
Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?
— Andy Warhol
I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.
— Georg Baselitz
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
— Paul Cezanne
The Cubist paintings in the Centre Pompidou in Paris were strange but amazing. The big fat magical cat said they made her eyes hurt.
— Jim Shanahan
I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.
— Vincent Van Gogh
In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
— Ma Jian
I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.
— Madonna Ciccone
I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings ... Boy With Pail ... Kitten On Fire.
— Steven Wright
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
— Robert Indiana
I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.
— Bob Kane
I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.
— Scott McClanahan
Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?
— Jonathan Hull
The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.
— Zaha Hadid
Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man.
— Albert C. Barnes
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
— Agnes Martin
There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.
— Louis Leakey
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
— Paul Gauguin
I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.
— Rachel Roy
Art, he said, isn't your little paintings and comic books. Art is the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs.
— Joey Comeau
I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
— Jack Nicholson
Art is a harmony parallel with nature
— Paul Cezanne
Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.
— Leonor Fini
I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.
— Pablo Picasso
The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.
— Buffy Sainte-Marie
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
— Freddie Mercury
I love art, in particular, paintings. I have, well, a lot.
— Domenico Dolce
Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.
— Wassily Kandinsky
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
— Thomas A. Edison
Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.
— Robert Bateman
I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.
— John Travolta
I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.
— Edward G. Robinson
I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..
— Vincent Van Gogh
Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.
— John Hart
I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings.
— Josh Smith
Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
My paintings are only the ashes of my art
— Yves Klein
If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.
— Gerhard Richter
Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.
— Eric Carle
We view art in order to escape our own skins, to get outside of the commotion inside our skulls.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
— Corita Kent
My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business
— Nas
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.
— Jerry Saltz
That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
— Damien Hirst
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
— Salvador Dali