Quotes About Paintings

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.

I get creeped out by Francis Bacon's paintings, and I can't say exactly why. They're all really disturbing, and there is an almost nimbus-like quality behind some of his frightening characters and stuff.

My parents are avid consumers of art, collectors of African American paintings, and have always gone to the theater. My mother has always been an activist, too. As long as I can remember, we were marching in lines.

I think it's absurd to believe that movies should look like paintings and say something like serious books say something.

Even Andy never hung his own paintings. He'd sell them or put them in a box.

I gave up on the idea of making art a long time ago, because I wanted to know how to make paintings; but once I came to know that, reconsidering the question of what art is returned as a critical issue.

When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats. I was painting in the bedroom, and I put them on the floor so I wouldn't get paint on the floor. They got destroyed.

I have a fairly good collection of paintings, both classical and contemporary.

I have been brought up around art. Even now, when I travel, I love going to museums and spend hours in front of paintings. Art is like oxygen for me. That's what I miss in Bombay.

I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had that creative side to me.

The Internet is a crazy archive of a lot of old everything. Paintings, drawings, old, new, and everything in between.

A lot of people tell me that my paintings are sad-looking, but they're actually more pensive than sad. They're very colorful and that says a lot about my disposition in life, how I'm very hopeful.

I always bought pictures, I only started to buy oil paintings when I started to make serious amounts of money because they cost a serious amount of money.

A role is a role where I play someone else, but when it comes to paintings, it is me. It is unadulterated Shefali and there is no control and I can let go. I am unabashedly unapologetic about it. That is what is interesting about my paintings.

M got into difficulties. Somebody – and since the client was dead it wasn't clear who – didn't like his two paintings.

I can't swallow Gregori's insistent proposal of the Toothpuller as M's and I think M used help on the second versions of early paintings like Lute Player II.

Mike explained the concepts of guerilla warfare to Richard and told him more about his sexual conquests in 'Nam. These stories hung inside Richard's head like obscene, perverse paintings. Mike still had the pictures of his conquests, which he showed Richard, and these photographs gave dimension, life, and sustenance to Mike's tales of sexual dominance and sadism and Richard's subsequent fantasies.

Whenever I'm in Edinburgh, which I visit often, I always try to hop on a train to Kirkcaldy to visit the art gallery, where my grandfather was convenor for 36 years, to revisit the marvellous paintings from my childhood - as do other family members.

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

You have to have patience and confidence that your things will let you know where they need to go. Particularly artwork. Paintings will tell you where they want to be.

It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.

But my point is that there's something that paintings and other created objects can do to give you some relief. They give you a location, a place to be, when the rest of the time the space has been taken up because the criticism got there first.