#painting

When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting. ↗

— Camilla Belle

#after #ago #art #art form #collections

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#agriculture #architecture #centralized #civilization #come

If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him. ↗

— Caspar David Friedrich

#him #nothing #painting #sees #should

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#back #day #end #end of the day #forward

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they? ↗

— David Hockney

#diploma #going #i #i see #painter

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

— Robert Indiana

#come #first #many #moby #moby dick

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open. ↗

— Gustav Klimt

#i #instead #japanese #miss #morning

Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her. ↗

— Jennifer Lawrence

#bizarre #close #day #every #every day

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

— Louis Leakey

#deteriorating #evidence #french #paintings #prehistoric

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#asks #because #conceal #does #either