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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.
Paul Klee
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Painter
Art
Life
Expression
Musical
Forms
Further
Mastering
Paintings
Prerequisite
Sculptures
Tragedies
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My paintings are rubbish.
David Bailey
/
Photographer
Painting
Rubbish
Paintings
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
Barnett Newman
/
Artist
Art
Smile
Expression
Leaving
Painting
Speak
Prefer
Leave
Paintings
Themselves
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
Georges Seurat
/
Painter
Poetry
Science
Painting
Say
Paintings
Some
See
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Ansel Adams
/
Photographer
Art
Smile
Believe
Photography
Reality
Photographs
Paintings
Art Believe People
Trusts
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It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.
Cy Twombly
/
Painter
Absurd
Finished
Paintings
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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.
Robert Rauschenberg
/
Painter
Intended
Paintings
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The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.
John Dyer
/
Artist
Bigs
Influence
Painting
Big Influence
Me Influence Big
Paintings
Van
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I love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings.
Celine Dion
/
Singer
Beautiful Things
Love Art Beautiful
Paintings
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I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
/
Artist
Made
Child
Look
Paintings
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.
Agnes Martin
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Artist
Horizontal
Lines
Paintings
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Even the earliest cave paintings in France and Spain had natural motion.
Gerald Vizenor
/
Writer
France
Spain
Cave
Earliest
Motion
Paintings
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I have a fairly good collection of paintings, both classical and contemporary.
Mohanlal
/
Contemporary
Fairly
Classical
Paintings
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
Jackson Pollock
/
Artist
Amount
Artist
Interest
Painting
Center
Depend
Paintings
Throughout
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
Agnes Martin
/
Artist
Art
Forever
Mind
Perception
Seen
Paintings
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.
Cy Twombly
/
Painter
Swear
Again
Show
Paintings
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That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
Corita Kent
/
Artist
Art
Music
Looks
Painting
People
Wholeness
Music Look People
Art Look People
Why
Touch
Art Music People
Art Music Look
Look
Paintings
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One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.
Cleo Moore
/
Film Actress
Naked
Painting
Waste
Even
Newspaper
Paintings
Published
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Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
Victoria Wood
/
Comedian
Literature
People
Way
Music People Way
Deserves
Paintings
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I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.
Alan Bean
/
Astronaut
Painting
Time Away
Want
Paintings
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No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
Mary Leakey
/
Archaeologist
Amount
Information
Stones
Yield
Bone
Freely
Gave
Paintings
Stone
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I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.
David Furnish
/
Contemporary
Contemporary Art
Photography
Sculpture
Love Art Great
Gravitate
Paintings
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I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
Georgia O'keeffe
/
Artist
Enjoy
Flower
Painting
Too Much
Apart
General
Paintings
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The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.
Leroy Neiman
/
Artist
Painting
People
Spectators
Viewers
Love People Who
Respond
Paintings
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
Damien Hirst
/
Artist
Practice
Anybody
Great Thing
Paintings
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Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.
Jerry Saltz
/
Art Critic
Subjects
Paintings
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
Gavin Rossdale
/
Musician
Book
Inspiration
Literature
Looks
Books
Look
Inspirations
Just Living
Paintings
Wherever
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Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
Frida Kahlo
/
Painter
Artist
Expression
Painting
Surrealist
Paintings
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I've been fortunate to have been in Paris a dozen times, where I've gone to the Louvre. I'm very big on Impressionistic paintings.
Shawn Crahan
/
Dozen
Louvre
Paris
Paintings
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If you look at ancient Chinese paintings, you see mountains, but they are not real mountains; it is something the artists imagined.
Ma Yansong
/
Ancient
Mountains
Imagined
Paintings
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The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
/
Artist
Black
Painting
People
Most
Person
People See Person
Them
Black People Person
Black People See
Paintings
Protagonist
Realized
See
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I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had that creative side to me.
Gauri Khan
/
Film Producer
Design
Creative
Graphic
Graphic Design
Design Always Me
Arts
Student
Paintings
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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
/
Artist
Awful
Drug
People
Best Money People
Paintings
Reclusive
Took
Worked
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I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the idea was through doing the paintings.
Cecily Brown
/
Artist
Carries
Idea
Paintings
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I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it.
Cy Twombly
/
Painter
Nuance
Used
Wanted
Change Things
Early
Feeling
Head
Paintings
Plan
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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
/
Actor
Art
Different
Looks
Pleasure
Pure
Every Time
Paintings
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People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.
John Guare
/
Playwright
Beautiful
Beautiful Paintings
Cost
Human Spirit
People
Wow
How Much
Paintings
Practical
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My Scottish grandfather, John W. Blyth, was a man addicted to paintings. A manufacturer of linen, he spent all his surplus money on pictures.
Michael Portillo
/
Journalist
Grandfather
Scottish
Surplus
John
Manufacturer
Pictures
Paintings
Spent
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A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
Orhan Pamuk
/
Novelist
Communicate
Everyday
Fancy
Objects
Our Lives
Just Be
Museum
Paintings
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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
/
Artist
Art
Looks
Surface
Want
Warhol
I Am Me Look
Nothing
I Am Me Nothing
Am
Andy
Behind
Look Me I Am
Films
Look
Look I Am Me
Paintings
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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.
Benny Hill
/
Comedian
Fortune
Interest
Television
Video
Covet
Images
Paintings
Television Set
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I find myself chatting with my paintings, not deep and meaningful stuff, but things like 'hey there buddy' and 'oh, look what I did to your nose!'
Anh Do
/
Author
Buddy
Chatting
Hey
Meaningful
Stuff
Myself Your Look
Did
Oh
Find
Look
Nose
Paintings
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Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.
Jerry Saltz
/
Art Critic
Art World
Hung
Art World Me
Estimated
Homes
Ignores
Included
Paintings
Twenty
Unanimously
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Paintings, people really don't understand... They don't really get paintings. Quilts they do understand because everybody has a quilt in their house.
Faith Ringgold
/
Artist
Paintings
Quilt
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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
/
Banker
Art
Design
Beautiful
Beautiful Paintings
Minimum
Numbers
Produce
Refinement
Strokes
Wonderful
Number
Japanese
Paintings
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
Yayoi Kusama
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Artist
Plague
Translate
Art Me See
Images
Paintings
Sculptures
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I've been a huge Psychedelic Furs fan for a long time. I love Butler's paintings, too. I like all their songs. I'll even crank 'Pretty in Pink,' I don't care.
Norman Reedus
/
Actor
Care
Crank
Don't Care
Fans
Huge
Long
Long Time
Psychedelic
Song
Love Time Long
Pretty
Fan
Butler
Paintings
Pink
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To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.
Arthur Rubinstein
/
Pianist
Able
Adopted
Alive
Miracle
Technique
Living
Walk
Houses
Living Life
Paintings
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I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.
Balthus
/
Artist
Art
Desire
Extraordinary
Mystery
Ordinary
Ordinary Things
Always Look Feel
Touch
Leave
Impose
Look Feel Always
Paintings
Slight
Suggest
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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.
Vincent Van Gogh
/
Painter
Dream
Beautiful
Clarity
Frightening
Moments
Scary
Appear
Period
Longer
Paintings
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