#painting

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science. ↗

— Georges Seurat

#i see #only #paintings #poetry #say

Rock & roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting. ↗

— Grace Slick

#easy #obscure #painting #really #rock

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#agriculture #architecture #centralized #civilization #come

If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him. ↗

— Caspar David Friedrich

#him #nothing #painting #sees #should

Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her. ↗

— Jennifer Lawrence

#bizarre #close #day #every #every day

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#chapel #creator #easily #paintings #sculptor

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#deteriorating #evidence #french #paintings #prehistoric

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#asks #because #conceal #does #either

A force de peindre la vie des autres, il avait oublié de peindre la sienne." On ne se tue pas pour une femme (2000) ↗

— Olivier Weber

#fiction #french-literature #literature #love #painting

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#artists #bought #contemporary #decided #establish