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There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings. China Mieville

Problem Tea Plenty About Feel Stuff Like Lots Any Really Paintings

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be. Chris Cornell

Music Entertainment Enjoy Think Lyric Lyrics Statements More Colorful Writer Make Making Doing Creating Should Paintings Images

When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively. Chris Ofili

Art You Better School Finished Painting Think Other Others Would Some Something Similarly Only Constructed Layers Individual Underneath Were Lots Art School Than Often Realise Worked Many Painters Paintings

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have. Chuck Close

People Made Some People Think Record Some Clearer Perhaps Most Make Than Artist Just Decisions Little Them Paintings

I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings. Chuck Close

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up. Cleo Moore

Me Naked Up Newspaper Paintings Even Waste Published

In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in Catholic dogma had been shaken and weakened, I found that the beauty and the richness of the art still held me. Colm Toibin

Art Me Travel Beauty Own Though Weakened Religious Shaken My Own Had Catholic Comfort Dogma Still Been Began Held Richness Europe Paintings Even Belief Found

I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. Cy Twombly

Would Never Had Over Just Again Them Swear Show Paintings

When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me. Damien Hirst

Great Me School Else Everyone Neglect Everyone Else Kind Would Colour Abstract Stuff Like Make Because Said Always Came Going Formal Curtains Used Tutor Naturally Using Paintings

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings. Damien Hirst

Art Good Day People End Of The Day Important Looking Looking Back Think Back More Head-On Looking Forward End Than Forward Paintings

Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member. Dan Brown

Work Art Day Believe Beneath Secret Hidden Member Brotherhood Remains Scholars Contain Powerful Protected Well Surface Go His Provides Historians Intentionally Which Clues Meaning Paint Many Agree Paintings Levels

That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there. David Amram

Music You Better Achieve Listening Important Looking Reading Own Books Collaborating Out Some Something Network Most Another Than Hanging Much Creating Your Paintings

My paintings are rubbish. David Bailey

Rubbish Paintings

Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem real and be loved, too. We're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics. David Hanson

I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out. David Lynch

Love Christmas You Painting Christmas Tree Tree Back Out Plug Putting Got Replaced Burns Them Paintings Each Each One Rig Started

You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum. David Lynch

Time You Cinema Half Year Painting Booked Though Minimum Some Take Idea Make Go Get Difference Might Paintings Even

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought. David Rockefeller

Art Mother Everybody Progressive Would Would-Be Bought Liked Contemporary She Very Person Modern Modern Art Artists Establish Where Decided Viewed Works Paintings Shown Museum

Being a creative person, I'm naturally drawn towards art of any kind. But I'm more attracted to paintings because they radiate an aura of their own. Dimple Kapadia

Art Creative Own Drawn Kind More Towards Attracted Because Aura Person Any Being Naturally Creative Person Paintings

I love art, in particular, paintings. I have, well, a lot. Domenico Dolce

Love Art Particular Well Lot Paintings

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