Top Paintings Quotes

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let...

He remembered that in the art books he had leafed through at Leader's, many paintings depicted death. A severed head on a platter. A battle, and the ground strewn with bodies. Swords and spears and fi...

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of oth...

This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn't know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do know you.He thought some more, wondering whether he dared say precisely what he felt, for he knew...

If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

I don't want these. They're mud and they've got no color. Or at least the color is different from what I'm used to. Take any American city, in autumn, or in winter, when the light makes the colors dan...

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.

That was your forest. Where you hunted. He came closer to the painting, gazing at the bleak, empty cold, the white and gray and brown and black. This was your life, he clarified.I was too mortified, t...

I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946

We don't see the world as a botanist who is at the same time an architect, a physician, a geologist, and a ship's captain. Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree...