#painting

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#back #day #end #end of the day #forward

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they? ↗

— David Hockney

#diploma #going #i #i see #painter

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open. ↗

— Gustav Klimt

#i #instead #japanese #miss #morning

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

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting. ↗

— Viggo Mortensen

#director #hue #just #makes #material

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

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

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

— Grace Slick

#easy #obscure #painting #really #rock

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life. ↗

— John French Sloan

#condemned #eager #energy #every #good

When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting. ↗

— Camilla Belle

#after #ago #art #art form #collections