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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

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia. — Barry McGee

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 love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings. — Celine Dion

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

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many. — Robert Indiana

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

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. — Joan Miro

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