204 Paintings Quotes for You to Enjoy

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness. Edvard Munch

Memories Simplicity Picture Nothing Painting Took Adding Eye Details See Followed Only Emptiness Impressions Did Painted Moments Paintings Hence

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. Vincent Van Gogh

Life Soul Own Derives Painter Paintings

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. Ansel Adams

Art People Believe Everybody Photographs Trusts Paintings

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting. Albert Camus

Painting Like Your Paintings

A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books. Frank Gehry

Home Live Books Way Furniture Minimal Stuff Mostly Comfortable Fish Lots Very Lamps Sculpture Stand Paintings Filled Cardboard Thing

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science. Georges Seurat

Science Say See Some Only Poetry Paintings

I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child. Jean-Michel Basquiat

Made Look Make Were Child Want Paintings

After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land. Jerry Saltz

Good Final Seventeen Nineteen Seventeen Years Drastically Broke Carrying Finish Constraints Delicacy Through Gnarly His Years Off Impressionism After Disintegrated Happily Notion Paintings Ever Ever After Images Starting

Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film. Jerry Saltz

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now. Jimmy Carter

Good Long Picture Few Painting Too Bit Pretty Nest More Fact Taken Wrote Gotten Cover Years In Fact Interest Little Little Bit Painted Popular Paintings Novel Now Last Last Few Years

We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe. Kevin Rudd

Art Great History Nation Our Ancient Aboriginal Rock Continuing Cave Cultures Link Australians Antiquity Human Us Human History Fortunate Europe Paintings Oldest Among Deepest

The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors. Khaled Hosseini

Music Musicians Culture Destruction Films Books Giant Vandalism Scene Devastating Had Buddhas Countless Most Taliban Cultural Infamous Tapes Effect Afghan Artistic Jailed Being Burned Painters Paintings Acts Filmmakers

I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static. Aaron Koblin

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. Agnes Martin

Horizontal Lines Just Certainly Paintings

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings. Aisling Bea

Beautiful Most Beautiful Delicate Most Prints Creates Paintings

If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word 'just' is not so good, but 'mess' might be right. Why not a mess? If it makes you say, 'Wow, I've never seen anything like that', that's beautiful. Albert Oehlen

I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before. Alison Goldfrapp

Time Relationship Animals Before Think Between Always Been Cave Them Aspects Fascinated Many Appear Paintings Humans

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse. Amy Bloom

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