Top 100 Quotes About Paintings

#1. The Cubist paintings in the Centre Pompidou in Paris were strange but amazing. The big fat magical cat said they made her eyes hurt.

Jim Shanahan

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#2. If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

Jeff Koons

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#3. I'm using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking at the videos there's a direct relationship to the paintings.

Mickalene Thomas

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#4. Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Irving Stone

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

LeRoy Neiman

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#6. They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn't - the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, "Why don't you show the other stuff?" I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition.

Claes Oldenburg

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#7. Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.

David Hockney

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#8. In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master; the rest were made by students. I had liked the ones by Raphael. This was a big jab for my self-confidence in my ability to appreciate art.

Richard P. Feynman

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#9. I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

Madonna Ciccone

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#10. I mostly paint animals I'm familiar with, but I did a series of paintings of ravens, so I read everything about them.

Jamie Wyeth

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#11. I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a job in a shoe store, sell real estate, or what? I was really depressed by the whole thing, because I felt like a painter, yet I couldn't make paintings.

Ralph Goings

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#12. Everything he's learned about the Civil Service tells him that having tea poured for you is one of the ferociously guarded signifiers of rank, like the grade of paintings from the Government Art Collection hung on your office wall, or the quality of your carpet.

Charles Stross

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#13. Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.

Susan Sontag

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#14. He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like a cherub who'd turned middle-aged in a trailer park.

Rick Riordan

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#15. There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.

Norbert Bisky

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#16. You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based on the number of paintings he churned out.

Tom Peters

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#17. Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes ... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.

Kazimir Malevich

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#18. I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.

Norval Morrisseau

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#19. I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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#20. I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have these things where you are. If you have them, what does the real world matter anyway?

John Frusciante

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#21. Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together.

Brenda Sutton Rose

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#22. The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

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#23. There is no more pressure on my rudder, he once remarked. Plain sailing, no drag on other people either. A bit of dancing now and then, that's fine. I still see those girls, but I pretend they're paintings. Or advertisements. But that was only later.

Cees Nooteboom

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#24. I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.

Shea Hembrey

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#25. The muscularity in my paintings is only an expression of the spirit within. When I paint Nephi, I'm painting the interior, the greatness, the largeness of spirit. Who knows what he looked like? I'm painting a man who looks like he could actually do what Nephi did.

Arnold Friberg

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#26. I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.

Jim Shaw

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#27. I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

Vincent Van Gogh

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#28. Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.

Leonor Fini

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#29. A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like or show on the walls the paintings we like when we walk into a room. How boring! The hell with our preexisting likes; let's expand ourselves intellectually.

Denis Dutton

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#30. During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings

Joseph Pisani

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#31. I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

Damien Hirst

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#32. Feminists amuse me more than illusionists. They are the only type of people that can make an illogical argument seem even more illogical with paintings of delusions.

Lionel Suggs

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#33. The narrative oftentimes is that everything that comes out of the hood is 'real,' and so I thought, 'I'll base it on the absurd, the not real. I'll twist the idea of real on its head and see if I can get away with it. I'll make paintings that come not from a place but through an abstract gaze.'

Mark Bradford

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#34. Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.

Eli Broad

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#35. If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.

Pablo Picasso

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#36. I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

Francis Bacon

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#37. On the walls were a series of paintings depicting the Duke in various elaborate situations. The Duke on a battlefield, the Duke at hunt, the Duke overlooking his lands, the Duke on the shitter. I made up that last one.

Daniel Polansky

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#38. I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.

Susan Rothenberg

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#39. I have, and do sometimes, work with other media. But there is something about the physical activity and the directness of painting that I find fascinating. I am very attracted to the materiality of paintings and the visual phenomena of hue and value.

Stephen Beal

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#40. The fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all.

Mary Pratt

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#41. What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and fleeting as thought itself, and give it form ... Maybe my paintings are all just little fragments of the Cosmic Dance suspended in time.

James Nares

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#42. I worked like a crazyman. I worked day and night, often days and nights at a time - without sleep. Gallons of coffee kept me awake; the paintings kept me fired up.

Jules Olitski

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#43. I am magnetically drawn to images, whether they're paintings, photographs, film, or video. They are all lodestones of inspiration to me.

Twyla Tharp

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#44. The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.

Susan Rothenberg

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#45. Memories were like tomb paintings, thought the Major, the colors still vivid no matter how many layers of mud and sand time deposited. Scrape at them and they come up all red and blazing.

Helen Simonson

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#46. Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man.

Albert C. Barnes

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#47. When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.

Chris Ofili

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#48. I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.

Andy Warhol

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#49. I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning ... rather than one great dull answer to all our questions

Anne Rice

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

Kate Micucci

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#51. I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

Julian Schnabel

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#52. The only slight disconcertance being that in the middle of looking at a paintings [in the Museum of Modern Art] she always found herself desperately needing to take a pee. And grandmother's voice in her ear.
'My dear, if you really have to, only clean, very clean rest rooms will do.

J.P. Donleavy

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#53. The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.

Anthony Browne

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#54. You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh ... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level.

John Currin

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#55. 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.

Etel Adnan

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

Julian Schnabel

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#57. There is so much strife and tension in the world that I find the silent world of paintings from the past both hopeful and healing.

Susan Vreeland

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#58. I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

Balthus

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#59. I told her how many things on earth have a fixed colour. Let us say, the green leaves. In our eyes, a red or a yellow leaf is beautiful. Even better if the leaf is shaded in several hues. So we paint the yellows and reds in our paintings oftener. And we forget the ordinary green, the best in nature.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

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#60. Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets, holes in hearts ... in negative space.

Marilyn Manson

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#61. Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

Gavin Rossdale

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#62. The reason these paintings are destined for New York is not because I am disappointed about a lack of German interest, but because MoMA asked me, and because I consider it to be the best museum in the world.

Gerhard Richter

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#63. I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

Robert Indiana

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#64. I used to do stop motion in my own garage and Claymation and all that stuff. That led to doing backgrounds and matte paintings. I started doing matte paintings professionally back before the computer, sort of painting on glass.

Robert Stromberg

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#65. Although the poet has as wide a choice of subjects as the painter, his creations fail to afford as much satisfaction to mankind as do paintings ... if the poet serves the understanding by way of the ear, the painter does so by the eye, which is the nobler sense.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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#66. Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Leland Ryken

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#68. I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely dry drawing, a dry conception of art.

Marcel Duchamp

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#69. Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge from the same source: the relentless dynamic toil of large populations of interconnected neurons.

Miguel Nicolelis

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#70. I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.

Yayoi Kusama

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#71. In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is a lot of inspiration around us that we can see every day and turn into projects.

Martha Stewart

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#72. I look just like one of Brianna's UGLY finger paintings. Because now I'm completely covered with: 1. brown peanut-butter stains 2. purple jelly stains 3. white soap suds AND 4. bright fluorescent-green hand soap from the girls' bathroom.

Rachel Renee Russell

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#73. I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

Bob Dylan

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#74. I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there were naked sculptures and paintings all over the place.

Ingrid Michaelson

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#75. With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.

Samuel Barnett

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#76. All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

Mike Svob

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#77. How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.

David Mitchell

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#78. I believe in reverencing anything in the life of man which has the testimony of the ages as being unexcelled, whether it be literature, paintings, poetry, tombs -- even a golf hole.

C.B. MacDonald

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

Alber Elbaz

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#80. Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

Vladimir Nabokov

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#81. If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.

Jackson Pollock

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#82. I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.

Andy Warhol

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#83. I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the time just so I don't ever feel like I'm sitting around.

Nikki Reed

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#84. Oriental DreamWorks did a lot of the surfacing of the village [in Kung Fu Panda 3] and you know all the little paintings on all the gables and everything? They have meaning, and they could do that because they know what that means, we don't necessarily know about that over here.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

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#85. There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression.

Wassily Kandinsky

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#86. Great paintings have gradations, large and small ... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention.

Robert Genn

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#87. Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.

Chuck Close

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#88. Take two paintings by the same artist, one has a signature and the other doesn't. The signed picture is generally more valuable. The signature is almost graffiti or a tagging system, yet it can become more important than the subject.

Gavin Turk

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

Arthur Smith

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#90. Some books had shiny pages that showed paintings of landscapes unlike anything Matty had ever seen, or of people costumed in odd ways, or of battles, and there were many quiet painted scenes of a woman holding a newborn child.

Lois Lowry

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#91. Watches have watch makers, paintings have painters, designs have designers, and creation has a creator,

Tony Evans

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#92. Manet also had an argument with Degas, the end result being that they each returned paintings that they had previous given to each other.

Doris Lanier

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#93. One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings ... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My methods are similar ... I expect each of my paintings to appear whole in every stage.

Christopher Willard

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#94. The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I've created for myself.

Gary Hume

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#95. With answering howls of rage, the vampires charged the werewolves, who met them head-on in the center of the ballroom.

The noise was like nothing Clary had ever heard. If Bosch's paintings of hell had come with a soundtrack, they would have sounded like this.

Cassandra Clare

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#96. I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way things once were, or perhaps, the way they could be, then I've done my job.

Thomas Kinkade

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#97. A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

Irving Stone

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#98. In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into patterns.

Francesca DiMattio

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#99. Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you just look at that bully little flower - isn't that enough?

John Marin

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#100. My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

Ken Danby

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