#paintings

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

— Alan Bean

#feel #i #i feel #i feel like #just

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings. ↗

— Frank Stella

#became #because #believed #brokers #doctors

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

— Lucian Freud

#excite #irrespective #matter #me #paintings

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

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. ↗

— Agnes Martin

#forever #known #mind #paintings #seen

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up. ↗

— Cleo Moore

#me #naked #newspaper #nude #paintings

My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#basically #been #career #continues #few

'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#good #good life #itself #life #luxury

The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#most #paintings #people #respond #spectators

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves. ↗

— Barnett Newman

#leave #paintings #prefer #speak #themselves