#painting

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

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

A force de peindre la vie des autres, il avait oublié de peindre la sienne." On ne se tue pas pour une femme (2000) ↗

— Olivier Weber

#fiction #french-literature #literature #love #painting

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#artists #bought #contemporary #decided #establish

People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued. ↗

— Lee Krasner

#army #called #continued #into #just

The substance of painting is light. ↗

— Andre Derain

#painting #substance

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#among #because #bought #chiefly #contemplating