#paintings

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

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

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#hung #i #kind #knew #mine

Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick. ↗

— Robert Indiana

#come #first #many #moby #moby dick

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art. ↗

— Brian Eno

#ambition #art #beginning #century #considered

I make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#get #hopefully #i #look #make

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

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#enriches #everybody #literature #lives #music

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century. ↗

— John Guare

#any #art #century #does #expensive

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#afraid #always #been #beginning #form