204 Paintings Quotes for You to Enjoy

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects. Orhan Pamuk

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The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust. Paul Bloom

The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color. Paul Stanley

Say Consistent Vivid Only Color The Only Thing Paintings Thing

My house is full of paintings by my mother Pam. She was a fantastic, prolific artist but had no confidence in herself, thanks to my father running her down. They married during the war when she was 19 - she had planned to go to art school. But my father didn't want her to work, so she became a housewife. Penny Junor

Work War Art Confidence School Mother Father Thanks Down Herself Prolific Married Running Had House She Became Housewife Go Art School Artist Want Fantastic Planned Full Paintings Her Pam

My mom is always asking why can't I make something nice? Because I'll make paintings, say, and they're just really bloody and angsty. So I wrote 'Dark Parts' because I wanted to write something nice for her. Perfume Genius

Mom Dark Nice Say Something Write Wrote Make Parts Because Always Bloody Just Wanted Asking Really Paintings Why Her

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way. Peter Doig

Great Made Painting Way Bad Some Deliberately Him Were Paintings

I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings. Rainn Wilson

Science Parents Big Living Had Wrote Science Fiction Oil Fiction Bohemian Painted Paintings Dad Novels Seattle Mural Last

'The Bradshaws' is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma - some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings scattered through the wilds of the Kimberley, an area larger than Germany in the remote, scarcely populated northwest of Australia. Richard Flanagan

Art Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Thousands Scarcely Some Scattered Given Area Mysterious Through Remote Rock Australia Germany Than Northwest Title Inappropriate English Paintings Enigma Larger

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many. Robert Indiana

Art Exactly Vogue Protest Done Realize Many Paintings

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended. Robert Rauschenberg

Old Way Read Sure Were Intended Paintings

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings. Robert Rauschenberg

Painting Enough Way Say Possibilities Out Find Facile Know Making Accomplish Just Want Just One Explore Paintings Two

I was an art student when I was a boy, and as an art student you don't have to talk to anyone - you just have to paint really wonderful paintings. It's very unlike being an actor, where you have to talk all the time. Roger Rees

Art Time You Wonderful Unlike Student Talk Boy Art Student Very Just Being Where Anyone Really Paint Paintings Actor

You want to make entertainment sometimes, and sometimes you want to make art, because I think the way we understand ourselves as human beings is through art, and the way we process emotions - I know I do - is through recognizing experiences on screen or in novels or in paintings. Rosamund Pike

Art You Entertainment Emotions Sometimes Think On-Screen Way Ourselves Recognizing Through Know Make Because Understand Human Screen Want Experiences Human Beings Process Beings Paintings Novels

When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats. I was painting in the bedroom, and I put them on the floor so I wouldn't get paint on the floor. They got destroyed. Roy Lichtenstein

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Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence. Roy Lichtenstein

With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand. Samuel Barnett

You Hair Every Extraordinary See He Does Microscopic Strand Paintings

The piano is an instrument that can easily sound overly thick, and I love to think that I can work with textures - particularly the inner textures inside the melody or the bass line. There is an analogy there with painting; I love paintings where you see colour underneath the colour and, underneath that, more texture and shape. Stephen Hough

Work Love You Painting Think Bass Analogy Melody Easily Inside See More Piano Shape Colour Particularly Instrument Underneath Sound Overly Line Texture Textures Where Paintings Thick Inner

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter. Steve Guttenberg

Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it. Steven Bochco

You Looking Recognize See Casting Like Know Sort Paintings

I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings. Susan Vreeland

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