Paintings Quotes

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.

These were the same symbols in the Heart of Spain paintings, so the exhibit and windows complemented each other.

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.

This is many layers of infused glass and color. The paintings are huge. It's extraordinary.

The paintings and the chamber really takes you on a journey of discovery. You see not only the beautiful works of art, but how people studied their surroundings and how they used their collections to tell a story about themselves.

We're still hopeful but we are no longer that confident. The chances of finding the paintings diminish with time and already a lot of time has passed.

To date, the show is the most conceptual art exhibition anywhere. There were only two art paintings. Most of the work were sculpture or installation.

I do a lot of paintings all over New York, and also all over the world, but Wall Street, it is so perfect because this is a tradition.

You can carry paintings around under your arms for six months and not sell one; or, if you do, you get half of what you thought you would.

The students write songs of themselves. First they draw paintings about what they feel and see to get to the heart of the poem. It's not an easy poem but they come away liking the poem.

I always tell people that it's not very good to put water features in a bedroom -- not even paintings of lakes and rivers -- because that could lead to losses, particularly financial losses. Sometimes it also leads to a loss in relationship.

These paintings originally were painted for people who just wanted to relax and escape the realities of their world, like pollution and overpopulation. And they still offer us a tremendous escape. They're really just luscious paintings. There's nothing that can substitute for art that is about sensuality and beauty, and that's what we're offering.

I was tired of painting. So many collectors bought paintings and locked them in bank vaults. The stained glass windows allowed me to make public art.

One of the best things about paintings is their silence-which prompts reflection and random reverie.

The paintings have been in Vienna for 68 years, and people in Europe saw them all the time. I thought it would be a beautiful thing to show them in this country.

For those that see subject matter in paintings as static are not only missing the story behind the work, they are mssing out on how form can be reinterpreted and how our use of composition and perspective has been altered as time goes on.

The trouble was that the people who stole the paintings didn't know what they had stolen. They got a little bit nervous.

It's just a classy appearance, with a touch of modern mingling with the realism of the paintings.

Anton is such a fun artist, because his paintings are all about food, wine and sommeliers.

You see, I thought of myself as making minimalist art like the music of Lamonte Young, or the paintings of Frank Stella.

Frary executed tremendous abstract paintings. Frary contributed significantly to mid-century modernist art in Texas.

And I make paintings that are totally different, and drawing is something different too. That way, I'm not limited, doing the same thing. There's always a thread of the artist in there, though. I just kind of make what comes out.

We had a wide range of entries. There was everything. There were computer graphics, photographs, oil paintings and etchings.

Arthur is free to use that word censorship if he wants. We are in the business of selling paintings and art. And song lyrics are not our expertise.