#paintings

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#apart #enjoy #general #i #know

I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York colour field painters and the soviet schools of the early/mid 20th century suprematism and constructionism. ↗

— Will Sergeant

#am #century #chord #colour #early

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man! ↗

— Robert Musil

#alone #creation #day #god #lifes

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#paintings #perceptions #real #undergo #viewer

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul. ↗

— Wassily Kandinsky

#art #paintings #science #art

Art is a harmony parallel with nature ↗

— Paul Cézanne

#cubism #paintings #art

There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression. ↗

— Wassily Kandinsky

#art

I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting. ↗

— Scott McClanahan

#fiction #fictional #nonfiction #paintings #art

On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger's considered view of the painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of view, was that it had cost forty-seven thousand pounds, plus VAT. ↗

— John Lanchester

#costs #expenses #paintings #worth #art

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

#books #even #far #hang #i