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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
My paintings are rubbish.
I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.
I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.
The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.
I love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings.
I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.
Even the earliest cave paintings in France and Spain had natural motion.
I have a fairly good collection of paintings, both classical and contemporary.
My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.
Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.
No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.
That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
I've been fortunate to have been in Paris a dozen times, where I've gone to the Louvre. I'm very big on Impressionistic paintings.
If you look at ancient Chinese paintings, you see mountains, but they are not real mountains; it is something the artists imagined.
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.
I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had that creative side to me.
I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the idea was through doing the paintings.
I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it.
I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.
My Scottish grandfather, John W. Blyth, was a man addicted to paintings. A manufacturer of linen, he spent all his surplus money on pictures.
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.
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.
I find myself chatting with my paintings, not deep and meaningful stuff, but things like 'hey there buddy' and 'oh, look what I did to your nose!'
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.
Paintings, people really don't understand... They don't really get paintings. Quilts they do understand because everybody has a quilt in their house.
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
I've been a huge Psychedelic Furs fan for a long time. I love Butler's paintings, too. I like all their songs. I'll even crank 'Pretty in Pink,' I don't care.
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.
I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
