#paintings

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

— Mark Stevens

#best #paintings #prompts #random #reflection

I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#bit #danger #i #i do #just

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#barely #beautiful #beautiful paintings #beautiful things #because

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#different #every #every time #get #i

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#enough #explore #facile #find #i

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#everything #inspiration #inspirations #just #just living

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#material #means #nature #paintings #photography

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#dog #had #i #know #me

I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions. ↗

— Rachel Roy

#around #art #colors #come #emotions

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

#attracted #been #desire #drawn #i