Quotes About Art

When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.

I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

Gray goes with gold. Gray goes with all colors. I've done gray-and-red paintings, and gray and orange go so well together. It takes a long time to make gray because gray has a little bit of color in it.

Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem real and be loved, too. We're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics.

I love art, in particular, paintings. I have, well, a lot.

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.

The great thing about a painter is that he or she lives on - I mean, Andrew Wyeth is more in his paintings than he was walking around.

Despite all the efforts of art dealers, the number of Rembrandts existing at a given time is limited; yet such paintings are commonly disposed of by auction.

I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.

'Certifiably Jonathan' contrives crises for its subject - a bid to get his paintings into MOMA, among others.

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

My dad is a sculptor and a painter, and mum runs an art gallery, which sells beautiful jewelry and ceramics and paintings - local and international.

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.

Painting is almost like a sport. It's like this action thing. When I do it, I'm really not thinking. The paintings are like a diary that I might not want to read again.

Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language.

I want my paintings to look like they were found in a garage. If they get a scratch or a hole in them, it just becomes part of the painting.

I think of film when I paint. Even the luminosity that I always keep working for is really about film. But my idea is not to paint paintings that will decorate somebody's house.

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.

Do cave paintings mean anything? Not really, but I, for one, am happy to have them.

If you look at ancient Chinese paintings, you see mountains, but they are not real mountains; it is something the artists imagined.

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