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They covered their walls with beautiful paintings for the same reason they drank - to distract themselves from the abyss.
— Dominic Smith
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
My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy,
— H.R. Giger
I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.
— Alan Bean
Biology keeps culture on a leash, which is why you can't teach a dog to play poker, never mind all those lying paintings.
— Gregory Cochran
People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground.
— Margaret Keane
It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of doors.
— E. J. Hughes
I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.
— Madonna Ciccone
I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.
— Julian Schnabel
I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.
— Rene Magritte
Upon entering, 'Your room,' be surrounded by the things you love: pictures, light, paintings, photos, books, whatever.
— Garry Fitchett
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
— Gavin Rossdale
My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.
— Theodore Robinson
I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.
— Bob Kane
Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.
— Evgeni Kostitsyn
When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.
— Alber Elbaz
The fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all.
— Mary Pratt
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 my teeth.
— David Lynch
I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.
— Cy Twombly
Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?
— Jonathan Hull
I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.
— Kiana Tom
In many ways my paintings are about energy - both in how they are created and the image itself.
— James Rosenquist
Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.
— Ellsworth Kelly
They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets
— Darnell Lamont Walker
The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
— Salvador Dali
If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.
— Julian Schnabel
I really had no program or any established plan. I didn't even ask myself if I should sell my paintings or not.
— Marcel Duchamp
These women stared out from the canvases with arched brows, enormous eyes and tiny mouths, seeing much, and saying little.
— Neal Stephenson
One of her best paintings, Woman Enjoying a Quick Snack at Starbucks, is hanging in their dining room.
— Meg Cabot
Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.
— Benjamin Franklin
When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
— Kate Micucci
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
Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.
— Antony Beevor
I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
— Takeshi Kitano
I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.
— Jimmy Carter
I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes.
— E. J. Hughes
Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.
— A. J. Jacobs
Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.
— Jerry Saltz
Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.
— Billy Carter
And I certainly wouldn't demonize an entire people on the basis of 3 blurry photos and a few paintings
— Guy Delisle
I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.
— Peter Doig
In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.
— Lance Henriksen
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
One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.
— Cleo Moore
In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.
— John McLaughlin
My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.
— Diego Rivera
Her paintings formed a visual diary, an outward manifestation of her inward dialog that was, all too often, a scream of pain.
— Gerry Souter
Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
— Robert Genn
I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite.
— Vincent Gallo
It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.
— E. J. Hughes
I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.
— John Travolta
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 really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
— Samuel Barnett
There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression.
— Wassily Kandinsky
I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings.
— Neil Farber
If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!
— Frank Lloyd Wright
western paintings did not occur.
— James A. Michener
I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.
— Robert Rauschenberg
Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.
— Yves Saint-Laurent
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— Douglas Coupland
Like writing, paintings seem to hint at a topsy-turvy world in which, so to speak, time's arrow moves the other way.
— Martin Amis
Watches have watch makers, paintings have painters, designs have designers, and creation has a creator,
— Tony Evans
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 can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more.
— Florence Welch
I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.
— Julian Schnabel
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression
— Richard Diebenkorn
I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.
— Paul Auster
I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.
— Billy Childish
