#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

#always #because #despised #european #every

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid. ↗

— Chuck Close

#grid #paintings #without

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them. ↗

— Kiana Tom

#close #close friends #did #enjoy #friends

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#appear #beautiful #clarity #dream #experience

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#life #own #painter #paintings #soul

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter. ↗

— Steve Guttenberg

#bad #because #couple #just #just because

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

— Robert Indiana

#done #exactly #i #many #paintings

My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office. ↗

— Ralph Allen

#apart #arts #care #concern #did

You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings! ↗

— Randy Bachman

#brick #browns #cave #color #ended

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me. ↗

— John Dyer

#big influence #had #influence #me #paintings