#paintings

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

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

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

— Barnett Newman

#leave #paintings #prefer #speak #themselves

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

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#material #means #nature #paintings #photography

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

People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast. ↗

— Thomas Kincade

#beauty #broadcast #faith #family #home

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

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

— Robert Indiana

#come #first #many #moby #moby dick

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#deteriorating #evidence #french #paintings #prehistoric