Paintings Quotes
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There must be an open space in the paintings – an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.
Norbert Bisky
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My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual, speaking truly through colour. Feeling that because of my illness I would not be able to paint very much longer, I worked like a man obsessed on these little 'Meditations' (a long series of small paintings he made during the last years of his life, with as main motif the schema of a face, ed.). And now I leave these small but, to me, important works to the future and to people who love art.
Alexej von Jawlensky
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I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.
Allen Sapp
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Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man.
Albert C. Barnes
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Like it or not, people tend to buy paintings to match their drapes, couch or carpet. I know you want them to be so overwhelmed with your skills they can't resist hauling your art home. These three factors are what dictate most art sales.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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I's only the things you don't do that you end up regretting: the women not courted, the paintings not painted, the paths not taken.
Ann Scott
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I make paintings really slowly because I change them and change them and change them and change them and change them. I don't really know how to not do that. I'm not very free in a way. Even though it looks free. But it's not.
Amy Sillman
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Each of my paintings is a cycle. It’s like existence, life. They are always in motion.. .If they were fixed and static, they would be false.
Bram van Velde
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They his 'Street Scene' paintings and drawings,he made in Berlin originated in the years 1911-14, in one of the loneliest times of my life, during which an agonizing restlessness drove me out onto the streets day and night, which were filled with people and cars.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language and architecture left behind. These are the building blocks of civilization we call culture. These are what we call 'the arts.
Edward J. Fraughton
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I think it's absurd to believe that movies should look like paintings and say something like serious books say something.
Paul Morrissey
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There is something cosmic in his interpretation of the movement of earth and sky and weather forms in his paintings...
Arthur Lismer
