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My Paintings are Battles. -- Georg Baselitz
Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas. -- Stephane Mallarme
Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images. -- Paul Auster
Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move. -- A. J. Jacobs
Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance. -- Benjamin Franklin
Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**. -- Chuck Close
I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature. -- Arthur Dove
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. -- Vincent Van Gogh
You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves. -- Toni Onley
Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer. -- Billy Carter
Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it. -- Eddie Cahill
Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations. -- Robert Genn
Lot's and lot's I am a proud man having so many fans of my work: (Paintings and films) -- Tom Six
Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream. -- Leonor Fini
Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well. -- Joe Bradley
Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you? -- Andy Warhol
Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by. -- James Rosenquist
What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...? -- William Butler Yeats
Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets, holes in hearts...in negative space. -- Marilyn Manson
Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That's the great thing about them. -- Julian Schnabel
Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them. They are the final, the nth whoopee of sight. -- Charles Demuth
Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research. -- Pablo Picasso
I give away thousands of paintings for free. -- Banksy
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. -- Ansel Adams
It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished. -- Cy Twombly
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting. -- Albert Camus
Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A. -- Walter Annenberg
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter. -- Lucian Freud
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings. -- Damien Hirst
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
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
Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. -- Beeban Kidron
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. -- Vincent Van Gogh
To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle. -- Arthur Rubinstein
Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. -- Joan Didion
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
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
Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings. -- Keith Haring
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. -- Giorgio Vasari
There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds. -- Jasper Johns
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
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. -- Joan Didion
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 way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?' Rock is simple, blunt, colorful. Same with my paintings. You don't stand back and wonder what it is. That's Jim Morrison, that's a panda, that's a scene on the West Coast. It's not abstract. -- Grace Slick
I am still getting that love on 'The Walking Dead' for Daryl. I try to respond to everyone as much as I can. I am super appreciative of all the presents I get: all the paintings and all the drawings; the shirts, and the hats, and everything else. Everyone is super cool. I feel like I am not just doing a job, and I am not just doing it by myself. -- Norman Reedus
My paintings are rubbish. -- David Bailey
My paintings are wiser than I am. -- Gerhard Richter
My cubist paintings are my most Mexican. -- Diego Rivera
I like the transience of Klimt paintings. -- Steve Coogan
My paintings are not meant to be tasted. -- Max Ernst
Like a guide dog, paintings help you see. -- Martin Mull
My paintings are so legible, I feel guilty. -- Doris McCarthy
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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid. -- Chuck Close
My paintings are only the ashes of my art -- Yves Klein
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. -- Agnes Martin
My paintings are the last paintings one can make. -- Ad Reinhardt
I like to paint paintings that I haven't seen. -- Mati Klarwein
In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings. -- Lance Henriksen
My greatest lesson in composition was looking at paintings. -- Larry Clark
Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings. -- Evgeni Kostitsyn
I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves. -- Barnett Newman
The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later. -- John Cage
If the paintings are too large, cut them in half! -- Frank Lloyd Wright
I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess. -- Julian Schnabel
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings. -- Salvador Dali
Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn. -- David Luiz
I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist. -- John Travolta
Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia. -- Barry McGee
Once there were 'outside' and 'inside' paintings-now there is no difference. -- Fred Williams
I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self. -- Mark Rothko
I love art, in particular, paintings. I have, well, a lot. -- Domenico Dolce
All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality. -- Mike Svob
It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means. -- James Rosenquist
Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half. -- Lorenz Hart
I was always very...impatient about showing my paintings to people. -- Julian Schnabel
Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh] -- Irving Stone
Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography. -- St. Lucia
I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended. -- Robert Rauschenberg
I love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings. -- Celine Dion
If you study my paintings, there are no signs of human life. -- Bob Ross
Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science. -- Georges Seurat
I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended -- Robert Rauschenberg
Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown. -- Rainn Wilson
A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings. -- Irving Stone
The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life. -- Susan Rothenberg
The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn. -- D. H. Lawrence
I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me. -- Andy Warhol
I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up. -- Jules Olitski
In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls. -- Brad Holland
The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer. -- Arthur Smith
I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore. -- Terri Windling
During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings -- Joseph Pisani
The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me. -- John Dyer
I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else. -- Julian Schnabel
I didn't paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy's living room, -- Ralph Fasanella
This would be the stuff of songs and paintings and patterns on skin. -- Victoria Collins
Mom's paintings are a very small part of the legacy she left behind. -- Benigno Aquino III
I did do, well before Pop Art, all the cartoon characters as paintings. -- Paul Laffoley
I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many. -- Robert Indiana
I FEEL NO SHAME ABOUT HAVING PAINTINGS BE AS GRANDIOSE AND RIDICULOUS AS POSSIBLE. -- Laura Owens
I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful. -- Madonna Ciccone
Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians. -- Frank Stella
Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films. -- Yves Saint Laurent
I don't think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes. -- Julian Schnabel
Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick. -- Robert Indiana
I'm able to sign my name to the paintings. That is really a blessing. -- Margaret Keane
There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings? -- Julian Schnabel
Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that. -- Victoria Wood
The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I've created for myself. -- Gary Hume
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. -- Nigel Dennis
If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning. -- Gerhard Richter
Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution. -- Vladimir Nabokov
There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas. -- Jean-Luc Godard
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. -- Freddie Mercury
Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them. -- Paula Rego
There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop. -- Peter Doig

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