#paintings

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. ↗

— Balthus

#attempt #best #better #even #find

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people. ↗

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

#best #completely #ever #had #i

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#art #beauty #colour #forms #good

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#doing #get #had #i #interested

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#himself #his #must #painter #paintings

Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer. ↗

— Billy Carter

#drinking #good #hard #like #only

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have. ↗

— Chuck Close

#clearer #decisions #i #i think #just

You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings, you know, pending where the show was being held. You did submit work to be accepted. Once you were accepted that was it. You did your own selection of what went in. ↗

— Lee Krasner

#being #could #did #held #how

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#am #andy #andy warhol #behind #films

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#dwight #paintings #sad #seen #those