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I paint paintings of people. Amy Sherald

People Paint Paintings

I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create. Amy Sherald

People Tell Through American Stories American People Create Paint Paintings

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money. Andrew Motion

Life Beautiful Finance Money Enough Enough Money Out Pension Eating Scheme Beautiful Paintings Like Beautiful Things Make Because Surrounded Afford Being Barely Paintings Things Buying

So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good. Andy Warhol

Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them. Apollonius of Tyana

Wisdom Law Unless City Contains Also Equivalent Subject Stones Theaters Them Useless Such Things Paintings Things

I think 'Les Demoiselles D'Avignon' is one of the most transfixing paintings of all time. And it was made by a monster of a man. Bari Weiss

Time Man Made Think Monster All-Time Most Les Paintings

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves. Barnett Newman

Speak Leave Prefer Themselves Paintings

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

Art Three Drawings Academia Pillars Sculptures Paintings

Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in three dimensions, in flesh and blood. I realized I had been trying to cram all this narrative into my paintings, but ultimately painting was a static medium. So it just opened up this whole new door. Beau Willimon

Time Me Writing Space Three Painting Medium Everything Static Dimensions Tell Ability Had Supplied Opened New Narrative Real Been Ultimately Blood Up Trying Just Cram Real Time Door Stories Which Realized Flesh Whole Paintings Plays

Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer. Billy Carter

Good Beer Drinking Only Like Tastes Stop Hard Paintings

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. Bob Dylan

Life Work People Architecture Real Life Whatever Live Design Photographs Scenes Takes Make Mostly Real Real People Models Behind Staged Curtain Graphic Graphic Design Paint Paintings Street Start

One of the questions that I hear over and over and over is, 'What do we do with all these paintings we do on television?' Most of these paintings are donated to PBS stations across the country. They auction them off, and they make a happy buck with 'em. Bob Ross

Happy Country Television Stations Buck Over Most Make Auction Hear Off Questions Donated Them Across Paintings

The Internet is a crazy archive of a lot of old everything. Paintings, drawings, old, new, and everything in between. Borns

Crazy Old Internet Everything Drawings Between New Lot In-Between Paintings

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category. Caio Fonseca

Work Hidden Category Texts Wall Meanings Many Paintings Need

I've heard that many fine artists have to turn their 'finished' paintings to face the wall - otherwise, every time they walk past, they are tempted to pick up a brush and make small adjustments here and there. Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Often, I find it really hard to see what I'm doing when I'm in the thick of things. I can get too precious and have to force myself to put my paintings aside. There's a wall in my studio where I hang paintings that I think are done or nearly done. Over time, I'll realise which ones are working and which aren't. Cecily Brown

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