You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves. Votes: 3
Toni OnleyPaintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer. Votes: 3
Billy CarterPaintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it. Votes: 3
Eddie CahillLot's and lot's I am a proud man having so many fans of my work: (Paintings and films) Votes: 3
Tom SixPiano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings. Votes: 0
Evgeni KostitsynThe upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn. Votes: 0
D. H. LawrenceThe paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life. Votes: 0
Susan RothenbergIn aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls. Votes: 0
Brad HollandI don't think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes. Votes: 0
Julian SchnabelI realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many. Votes: 0
Robert IndianaSeeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films. Votes: 0
Yves Saint LaurentAbstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians. Votes: 0
Frank StellaI FEEL NO SHAME ABOUT HAVING PAINTINGS BE AS GRANDIOSE AND RIDICULOUS AS POSSIBLE. Votes: 0
Laura OwensThere's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings? Votes: 0
Julian SchnabelI see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me. Votes: 0
Julian SchnabelIt has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few... Votes: 0
LeRoy NeimanI love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous. Votes: 0
Thomas A. EdisonEvery painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember. Votes: 0
Siri HustvedtThere could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop. Votes: 0
Peter DoigThere is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings. Votes: 0
Theodore RooseveltModern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. Votes: 0
Freddie MercuryThe Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I've created for myself. Votes: 0
Gary HumeEven with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas. Votes: 0
Jean-Luc GodardThe more successful paintings just fall off the brush. The less successful ones take longer. Votes: 0
Toni OnleyPoor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. Votes: 0
Jerry SaltzIf the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning. Votes: 0
Gerhard RichterPhotography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. Votes: 0
Nigel DennisMusic enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that. Votes: 0
Victoria WoodOnly talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution. Votes: 0
Vladimir NabokovI want my paintings to have a light of their own, they must glow from inside... Votes: 0
Douglas PortwayMy paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout. Votes: 0
Jackson PollockMy paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy, Votes: 0
H. R. GigerThe paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art. Votes: 0
Zaha HadidNo one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer. Votes: 0
Chuck CloseThrough her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality. Votes: 0
Diego RiveraIt was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects. Votes: 0
James TurrellI really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary. Votes: 0
Samuel BarnettMy paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation. Votes: 0
Jonathan WintersPeople are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence. Votes: 0
Ralph AllenThe air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe. Votes: 0
Edgar DegasIt is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done. Votes: 0
Thomas KinkadeI think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. Votes: 0
Robert IndianaI want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw. Votes: 0
Yayoi KusamaThat's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness. Votes: 0
Corita KentI think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable. Votes: 0
Billy ChildishWhat is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand. Votes: 0
Eugene DelacroixMy goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph. Votes: 0
E. J. HughesIt is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.' Votes: 0
Thomas KinkadeI like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings. Votes: 0
Steven SoderberghMy paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. Votes: 0
Agnes MartinThe fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all. Votes: 0
Mary PrattIt is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes. Votes: 0
Edvard MunchI also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them. Votes: 0
Kiana TomSo many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category. Votes: 0
Caio FonsecaI see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings. Votes: 0
Richard SchmidI like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire. Votes: 0
Steven WrightPeople either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground. Votes: 0
Margaret KeaneThe artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings. Votes: 0
Buffy Sainte-MarieMy paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see. Votes: 0
Ken DanbyNo amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely. Votes: 0
Mary LeakeyOne newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up. Votes: 0
Cleo MooreLooking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century. Votes: 0
Rebecca MillerIn many ways my paintings are about energy " both in how they are created and the image itself. Votes: 0
James RosenquistI feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away. Votes: 0
Alan BeanOne can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor Votes: 0
Edvard MunchI'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates. Votes: 0
Paul GauguinIf my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint. Votes: 0
Jacqueline RoqueIn my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above... so I never have to go upstairs. Votes: 0
Steven WrightIf I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that. Votes: 0
Jeff KoonsI am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City. Votes: 0
Bob KaneI lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings. Votes: 0
Vincent Van GoghI can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings. Votes: 0
Allen SappIf I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall. Votes: 0
Julian SchnabelI don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them. Votes: 0
Tom SixIn 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. Votes: 1 Giorgio Vasari