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

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.
Arthur Rubinstein

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.
Robert Rauschenberg

I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore.
Terri Windling

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.
William Wiley

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

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
Andy Warhol

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.
Bridget Riley

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.
Giorgio Vasari

It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.'
Thomas Kinkade

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
Albert Camus

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.
Steve Guttenberg

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

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.
John Dyer

My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.
Ralph Allen

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
Agnes Martin

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
Jackson Pollock

Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.
Walter Annenberg

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
Mary Leakey

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Ansel Adams