#paintings

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half. ↗

— Lorenz Hart

#could #half #never #painters #paintings

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#been #big #big band #biggest #completed

Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that. ↗

— Ad Reinhardt

#artist #connected #dozen #even #every

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

Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village. ↗

— David Amram

#black #black and white #did #gorgeous #greenwich

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead. ↗

— David Bailey

#always #because #dead #dead people #event

My paintings are rubbish. ↗

— David Bailey

#rubbish

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