#paintings

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

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It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting. ↗

— Albert Camus

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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

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I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to. ↗

— William Wiley

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Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century. ↗

— John Guare

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I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

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I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many. ↗

— Robert Indiana

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I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away. ↗

— Alan Bean

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One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie. ↗

— Mark Stevens

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The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter. ↗

— Lucian Freud

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