Quotes About Paintings

I find the history of toys very interesting on an academic level - they're very much products of their time, just like paintings and furniture tell us about their time.

Incorporating an awareness of style in the paintings gives them a kind of electricity and holds them together. It can plug you into the moment at which they were made.

I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.

Since the world is ending," Peter quoted from behind us, "why not let the children touch the paintings?

Laroche was wrong about that, wrong about men not understanding love. Anyway, most of the romantic poems and songs and paintings in the world were by men, so what was she talking about?

I must leave all that! Farewell, dear paintings that I have loved so much and which have cost me so much.

The pawn dealer was always impressed by Pierrot's perspicuity when it came to selecting the paintings. He always plucked incredible works of art, the most valuable pieces in the collection.

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

Makeup ignites a psychological transformation of both the wearer and the observer. My paintings sought to locate the subject of art within the manipulation of that altered predisposition.

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

Tibetan thangka paintings and derive strength from their beauty.

The paintings, full of dark, hellish landscapes of torture and debauchery, are about chaos and its consequences.

The architect who first inspired me to follow this profession was Sir John Soane and his Regency home; well, his three homes, now a museum. The place is like an encyclopedia of paintings, antiquities, furniture, sculptures, and drawings.

I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.

All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.

The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.

The walls were hung with a series of gigantic paintings in gilded frames of great complexity, all depicting the city of Venice, but the day was overcast, a cold stormy rain had set in, and Venice – that city built of equal parts of sunlit marble and sunlit sea – was drowned in a London gloom.

my inspiration is paintings and not music when I go to some other art form . . . I see these things very clearly.

During the 18th century, pictures depicting the sex act were distributed more widely in Japan than in any other part of the world, partly because of the earlier invention of the wood-block print and partly because of a great demand by the growing middle class for drawings and paintings. This erotic Japanese art form flowed from a very real tradition—the celebration of sex in the springtime.

He had come abroad to enjoy the Flemish painters and all others; but what fair-tressed saint of Van Eyck or Memling was so interesting a figure as Madame de Mauves?

Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.

Far from being dominated by ideas from Paris and New York, Latin American artists were often the innovators. They were doing drip paintings in advance of Pollock, creating language art before the American conceptualists, and fashioning shaped canvases decades before Kelly or Stella.

I was in Madrid as a young girl and a teenager. I'll never forget when I went to the Prado Museum for the first time and saw the paintings of Goya. They had such a big impact on me.

When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.