Quotes About Art

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.

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.

If every individual starts listening to poetry, watch plays, and see paintings, they'll become a better human.

I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the idea was through doing the paintings.

What inspires me to paint is life, my emotions, through my paintings I want people to understand that life isn't always happy but you should be always hopeful that's why I use bright colors in my paintings, that's what I want people to feel about me and when they see my art.

Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal... But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

I believe that 100, 200, 300 years from now, all these paintings will be around because they're the first paintings of humans doing things off this Earth.

I paint paintings of people.

The people I feel inspired around draw pictures, they make paintings.

Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films.

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

I don't really look like people in films; I look like people in paintings.

Being a creative person, I'm naturally drawn towards art of any kind. But I'm more attracted to paintings because they radiate an aura of their own.

The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.