#paintings

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

Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#always #away #been #cartoon #cartoons

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#apart #enjoy #general #i #know

I am into drones and one chord freak outs and the paintings I am into are more minimal things the New York colour field painters and the soviet schools of the early/mid 20th century suprematism and constructionism. ↗

— Will Sergeant

#am #century #chord #colour #early

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man! ↗

— Robert Musil

#alone #creation #day #god #lifes

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#paintings #perceptions #real #undergo #viewer

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul. ↗

— Wassily Kandinsky

#art #paintings #science #art

Art is a harmony parallel with nature ↗

— Paul Cézanne

#cubism #paintings #art

There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression. ↗

— Wassily Kandinsky

#art

I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting. ↗

— Scott McClanahan

#fiction #fictional #nonfiction #paintings #art