#painting

On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger's considered view of the painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of view, was that it had cost forty-seven thousand pounds, plus VAT. ↗

— John Lanchester

#costs #expenses #paintings #worth #art

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#always #been #comforts #company #friend

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

— Mary Leakey

#could #freely #gave #information #kinds

My painting carries with it the message of pain. ↗

— Frida Kahlo

#message #pain #painting

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#art form #dance #drive #every #focus

Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#came #challenge #did #highlight #home

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#art #auditory #because #certain #depend

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#good #nothing #painting #such #thing

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting. ↗

— Alfred Sisley

#canvas #hardest #painting #problems

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#art #continues #finished #habit #painting