People Paintings Quotes
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People Paintings Quotes & Sayings
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My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy,
— H.R. Giger
People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground.
— Margaret Keane
So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.
— William Dobell
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
The fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all.
— Mary Pratt
If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.
— Wayne Thiebaud
The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
— Salvador Dali
I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.
— Richard Schmid
In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.
— Brad Holland
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
— Pablo Picasso
And people who have kids, people with husbands and jobs and mortgages, don't much want to hear about other people's paintings.
— Michele Young-Stone
It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.
— James Turrell
I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer.
— Julian Schnabel
Some people have recognized their friends in my paintings, but I'm not directly responsible for any hooking up as far as I know!
— Sophie Blackall
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.
— LeRoy Neiman
I was always very ... impatient about showing my paintings to people.
— Julian Schnabel
I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
— Ralph Allen
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
— Salvador Dali
I love to paint. It's more of a hobby, but people love the paintings so much that I end up selling whatever I paint.
— Grace Gealey
The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.
— Mark Rothko
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
— Corita Kent
I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to make pictures that are timeless.
— Burton Silverman
Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
— Victoria Wood
I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.
— Peter Webber
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
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