#paintings

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

— Georges Seurat

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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

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

— David Hockney

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

— Louis Leakey

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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

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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

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I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold. ↗

— John Dyer

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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

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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. ↗

— Arthur Rubinstein

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I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. ↗

— Arthur Rubinstein

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