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In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls. -- Brad Holland
So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category. -- Caio Fonseca
I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light. -- Ellsworth Kelly
If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall. -- Julian Schnabel
I stick the collages on the wall and, if I still like them after a month or two, I make a painting. -- James Rosenquist
My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy. -- Tom Robbins
If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe. -- Conor Oberst
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. -- Tom Stoppard
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall. -- Frank Stella
All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides. -- Gloria Vanderbilt
I would often see windows that looked to me like they weren't real - almost like a painting on a wall instead of a window. I thought it was kind of a cool idea. -- David Allee
You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings! -- Randy Bachman
And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture. -- Minoru Yamasaki
When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold. -- Julio Iglesias
We feel closer to the drawings on the walls of Chauvet than the painting of, say, an Egyptian mural. These artists are not remote ancestors; they are brothers. They saw like us; they drew like us. We wear essentially the same clothes against the cold. -- Simon McBurney
People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast. -- Thomas Kincade
Pablo Picasso would paint a painting and hang it on the wall, and you would go and see the painting exactly how he wanted it to be made. But if you have an idea for a TV show, for example, you're beholden to studios to produce it and distributors to distribute it. -- Casey Neistat
I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that. -- Keith Haring
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
The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good. -- Gregory of Nyssa
We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all -- Zooey Deschanel
The gospel word of the day can become like a painting on the walls. of your inner room, the inner room that is your heart. -- Henri Nouwen

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