#paintings

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#between #earlier #i #paintings #picture

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#beautiful #beautiful paintings #design #japanese #minimum

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#intended #old #paintings #read #sure

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#business #conscious #i #ideas #imply

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#art #artists #aware #birds #carolina

People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast. ↗

— Thomas Kincade

#beauty #broadcast #faith #family #home

We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#among #ancient #antiquity #art #australians

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

— Georges Seurat

#i see #only #paintings #poetry #say

I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#course #design #down #golf #golf course

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

#back #day #end #end of the day #forward