#paintings

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

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings. ↗

— Keith Haring

#colors #eye #fact #guess #i

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#contemporaries #dead #easier #get #i

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

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

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings. ↗

— Ikue Mori

#books #bottom #bottom line #compose #create

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#barely #beautiful #beautiful paintings #beautiful things #because

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

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#advertising #conceal #i #illustrate #manufacturers