Paintings Quotes

• My paintings used to be so realistic and I found it a little bit boring, especially now that I'm in New York. I wanted to be more free, first in my mind and then, slowly, in my work. Many artists have these jumps in their work and at some point it looks like a supermarket. For me it was important to develop.

  

  Nir Hod
  • Important
  • Paintings
  • Realistic

• Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Dreams
  • Paintings
  • Van Gogh

• My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.

  Etel Adnan
  • Writing
  • Connection
  • Influence

• What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Create
  • Paintings
  • Illusions

• My paintings (1907) were aglow with colors and so my soul was contended with them.

  

  Alexej von Jawlensky
  • Soul
  • Paintings
  • Contended

• 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
  • Truth
  • Culture
  • Language

• To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing - what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.

  

  Gerhard Richter
  • Language
  • Communicate
  • Express

• To me, paintings are about beauty. They are very feminine, and beauty is something very feminine. For a long time, people would talk with me about identity. I don't have issues with identity, I just follow this kind of feminine beauty because I became a victim of my art, which I think is the best thing for an artist. So many artists use their talent, but with the best artists, their talent uses them.

  

  Nir Hod
  • Beauty
  • Feminine
  • Paintings

• My paintings are wiser than I am.

  

  Gerhard Richter
  • Paintings
  • Wiser

• A painter works to formulate with or in colors.. .My paintings follow the second option.

  

  Josef Albers
  • Option
  • Colors
  • Paintings

• I'm expressing the feelings of mankind today through the Blue Dog. The dog is always having problems of the heart, of growing up, the problems of life. The dog looks at us and asks, 'Why am I here? What am I doing? Where am I going?' Those are the same questions we ask ourselves. People look at the paintings, and the paintings speak back to them.

  

  George Rodrigue
  • People
  • Speak
  • Problems

• I'm now in a big working period, which takes me up so much that hardly anything of me remains. I have never been strong in theories and this becomes worse and worse. My work should give me satisfaction, and that is about life and death.. .Several paintings full of life and beauty arose again and give me the courage and joy to proceed on the road. There are also several paintings in which I am involved for less than half, discharges in a short time, which have existence for a while, but will not reach shaping.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Death
  • Existence
  • Reach

• Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn.

  

  David Luiz
  • Sometimes
  • Burn
  • Paintings

• Yes, perhaps there is some enjoyment in it his paintings too, somewhere.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Enjoyment
  • Paintings

• To be true, you have to take the plunge, to touch bottom. But most people want to be in control. They fear the worst. You can’t control anything. What you have to do is let yourself be taken over.. .All the paintings I have made, I was compelled to make. You must never force yourself.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Fear
  • Control
  • Force

• Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

  

  Georges Seurat
  • Science
  • Poetry
  • Paintings

• I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only know what I feel.

  

  Danny Fox
  • Feel
  • Knowing
  • Paintings

• During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters were also pilloried as having manufactured insipid and sugary paintings that were offensive to good taste.

  

  Ernst Gombrich
  • Taste
  • Critics
  • Masters

• I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Different
  • Movies
  • Paintings

• I don’t know if I've got close enough in two recent paintings he made to what I was really trying to achieve. But at least I've tried, I've made the attempt. I've done what I could. I've gone as far as my powers permitted.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Achieve
  • Powers
  • Attempt

1

2

3

4

previous

next