Paintings Quotes

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

My paintings are rubbish.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.

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

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

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

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

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

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.

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

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.