People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
- Ralph Allen
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
- Andy Warhol
I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.
- Balthus
I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting.
- Georg Baselitz
My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.
- Jimmy Carter
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
- Paul Cezanne
When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.
- Jean Cocteau
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.
- Nigel Dennis
You seem to be turning into the theme of all my paint-ings", she said. "The meeting of two worlds. A double exposure. Showing through the outline of Tomas the libertine, incredibly, the face of a romantic lover. Or, the other way, through a Tristan, always thinking of his Tereza, I see the beautiful, betrayed world of the libertine.
- Milan Kundera
My paintings are not meant to be tasted.
- Max Ernst
Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.
- H R Giger
I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.
- Vincent Van Gogh
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
- Vincent Van Gogh
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
Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.
- Robert Indiana
My painting carries with it the message of pain.
- Frida Kahlo
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
Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.
- Pablo Picasso
Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.
- Pablo Picasso
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.
- Rene Magritte
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
- Agnes Martin
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.
- Joan Miro
I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.
- Barnett Newman
My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
- Jackson Pollock
My painting does not come from the easel.
- Jackson Pollock
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
- Jackson Pollock
If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.
- Julian Schnabel
Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
- Georges Seurat
Rock & roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.
- Grace Slick
Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre.
[Vincent Van Gogh]
- Irving Stone
- Ralph Allen
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
- Andy Warhol
I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.
- Balthus
I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting.
- Georg Baselitz
My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.
- Jimmy Carter
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
- Paul Cezanne
When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.
- Jean Cocteau
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.
- Nigel Dennis
You seem to be turning into the theme of all my paint-ings", she said. "The meeting of two worlds. A double exposure. Showing through the outline of Tomas the libertine, incredibly, the face of a romantic lover. Or, the other way, through a Tristan, always thinking of his Tereza, I see the beautiful, betrayed world of the libertine.
- Milan Kundera
My paintings are not meant to be tasted.
- Max Ernst
Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.
- H R Giger
I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.
- Vincent Van Gogh
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
- Vincent Van Gogh
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
Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.
- Robert Indiana
My painting carries with it the message of pain.
- Frida Kahlo
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
Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.
- Pablo Picasso
Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.
- Pablo Picasso
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.
- Rene Magritte
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
- Agnes Martin
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.
- Joan Miro
I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.
- Barnett Newman
My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
- Jackson Pollock
My painting does not come from the easel.
- Jackson Pollock
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
- Jackson Pollock
If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.
- Julian Schnabel
Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
- Georges Seurat
Rock & roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.
- Grace Slick
Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre.
[Vincent Van Gogh]
- Irving Stone
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