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And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything. Josef Albers | top
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People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence. Ralph Allen | top
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That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there. David Amram | top
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Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets. Ursula Andress | top
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All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead. David Bailey | top
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. Balthus | top
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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. Jean-Michel Basquiat | top
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Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer. Billy Carter | top
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I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings. Chuck Close | top
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Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future. H. R. Giger | top
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You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that. H. R. Giger | top
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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. Vincent Van Gogh | top
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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. John Guare | top
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I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. Robert Indiana | top
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I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City. Bob Kane | top
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But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true! Norman MacCaig | top
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By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life. Edvard Munch | top
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves. Barnett Newman | top
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout. Jackson Pollock | top
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Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that. Ad Reinhardt | top
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science. Georges Seurat | top
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I make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them. Mike Thompson | top
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I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them. Kiana Tom | top
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In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. Giorgio Vasari | top
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Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown. Rainn Wilson | top