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" Quotes and Sayings About paintings

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

Understand Modern Enjoy Painting
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films.

Also Cubism Films Happy
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Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

Energy Potential Waste Average
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I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.

Covet Fortune Images Interest
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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Derives Life Own Painter
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I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Am Appear Beautiful Clarity
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

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

Always Books Darker Drama
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Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

Deserves Everybody Literature Lives
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

Art Dead Exhibit Feet
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If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.

Read poem World Good one
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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
Art Expression Forms Further
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Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.
Clown Paintings Sad Seen
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I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

Been Bush His Interested
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My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

Bit Cover Fact Few
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

Amount Center Depend Interest
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The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

People Weep My painting Same religious
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The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God.

Paintings Relation Prayers Vision
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I want my paintings to look like they were found in a garage. If they get a scratch or a hole in them, it just becomes part of the painting.

Paintings Garage Hole Part
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