#paintings

I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff. ↗

— Naomi Watts

#books #darker #drama #find #i

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 take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#bad #bad choices #choices #grow #help

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

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

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

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness. ↗

— Corita Kent

#listen #look #music #paintings #people