Certainly we have bad paintings. We have only the "greatest" bad paintings.
Francoise Cachin
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DANIEL MELGAçO A man may have no bad habits and have worse
MARK TWAIN It's the imperfections that make things beautiful
JENNY HAN The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.
DAMIEN HIRST My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.
AGNES MARTIN Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we...
DEYTH BANGER We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR The only leverage we have for bad pay is embarrassment.
RICHARD FERLAUTO Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.
H. R. GIGER Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Certainly I have made comments on American society with the various pictures and have done about nin...
JAMES ROSENQUIST Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.
ROBERT INDIANA The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to m...
CLIVE BARKER I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a paint...
JASPER JOHNS Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
GEORGES SEURAT We act as if a left-wing agenda is something we should disavow. Of course we don't have an agenda, o...
T.J. KIRK We were looking at the space when we were designing the whole suite of galleries, and we noticed tha...
JAMES WATT Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
VINCENT VAN GOGH I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.
YAYOI KUSAMA Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than wh...
C.S. LEWIS Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the...
BALTHUS The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I have sold a number of frames, several paintings, and a tiger maple stand.
JOHN GOULD My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
JACKSON POLLOCK My mother, who died recently, wanted you to have these two paintings of Pikes Peak.
CHARLES CRAIG Some of the greatest wisdom I have heard came from bad experiences.
CHRISTOPHER FEBVRE There had to be maximum wall space in order to display the art as well as Roy's collection of rare b...
DIANA LEE The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject m...
LUCIAN FREUD A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
PAUL CéZANNE Some months we have good months. Some months we have bad months. (In August) I think we only had one...
CARL FLETCHER I have done a number of large paintings, but nothing this large and nothing this time consuming.
BILL SANDUSKY I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That...
CHRISTOPHER MELONI Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.
BILLY CARTER The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many p...
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful pa...
ALBERT OEHLEN We wanted to give it a hometown theme where local people tell their story through our paintings.
DAN MODZELEWSKI Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
MAHATMA GANDHI So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
CAIO FONSECA We are really very happy to have them come back year after year. The public really enjoys them. They...
JULIA ALLEN Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to...
FRANK STELLA My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a k...
JULIAN SCHNABEL After 10 years, the family moved and the wall was painted over by the new residents. I wish the prev...
KARL HEPNER But this is war. We don’t have the luxury of good ideas—only picking between the bad ones.
SARAH J. MAAS All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
CHUCK CLOSE All of the paintings belong to a private collection.
MARTHA TRASK It always goes badly for Russia. It's bad when we don't have money and bad when we do.
IRINA YASINA I think we have six people who are really sort of OK. They are all good people. We don't have bad pe...
DONALD TRUMP Bad guys have only one enemy: The Universe; but the good guys have two enemies: The universe and the...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecr...
ERICA JONG I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hol...
CECILY BROWN My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence...
ETEL ADNAN Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.
DAMIAN LOEB Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
ANSEL ADAMS This could be . . . a very bad idea," I admitted, my grip tightening on his hand.
"Oh, it most...
SARAH J. MAAS Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.
BILLY CARTER Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economic...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economic...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economic...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economic...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT In the next century, when art will be packaged as virtual reality software, realistic paintings will...
BRAD HOLLAND We had a bad day. You can't have a bad day against a good team.
GREG LEVERT I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
BARNETT NEWMAN The class came in and they didn't recognize their paintings.
GEORGE DILLON I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We mustn't complain too much of being comedians -- it's an honorable profession. If only we could be...
GRAHAM GREENE One of the questions that I hear over and over and over is, 'What do we do with all these painti...
BOB ROSS If we have one bad food incident, it would take us a decade to overcome the bad publicity.
REP. NANCY DETERT In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.
LANCE HENRIKSEN Even her oil paintings aren't ordinary by any means.
ANN JAROSKI fine wines, jewelry, Western furniture, and 19th century paintings.
HENRY HOWARD If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... These seven paintings are unique. They represent the result of the combined efforts of many club mem...
ED LAUDANO I'm an outdoor painter painting from life. All of my paintings are oil paintings. They are character...
WILLIAM NORTH There's a great chance that all the nude statues and paintings we cherish from ancient Rome were jus...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI We all have them, those parts of us that are the greatest parts of us and the worst parts of us. Som...
ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ I got a few books on tourist attractions, and I studied a National Art Museum book. I saw some of th...
CAROLINE LELAND When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
KATE MICUCCI He says, 'I've seen 50 million paintings, I know magenta,'
STEPHEN G. BREYER While humans have been cooking, making music, and building for thousands of years, archaeologists ha...
KA WAI CHEUNG [According to some experts, the American Healthcare system is on the brink of failure.] We certainly...
MARCIA ANGELL You have the right to free speech. We, the corporate controlled government, have the right to ignore...
STEVEN MAGEE Look for stories in the paintings. Identify objects. For instance, with a portrait, try to figure ou...
ELLEN ALVORD We believe most investment decisions on defense stocks should have a short time horizon -- certainly...
JOE CAMPBELL There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all...
DAMIEN HIRST My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional...
YAYOI KUSAMA And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doo...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG We have no other choice. It's bad for emissions, it's bad for safety. But it is what it is.
MARK THOMAS It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
ALBERT CAMUS Those Degas paintings tell a story that's poignant and very dark,
CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON He claims he can get these paintings in a half hour.
HAROLD SMITH We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human histor...
KEVIN RUDD It's a bad feeling we have to leave here with.
DEMARCUS NELSON One thing we never did with 'Bad Company' was talk down to our reader. And we certainly don&...
PETER MILLIGAN Many artists already see their paintings as having dimensional depths. The 3-D is a tool to let the ...
ALOIS FABRY I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptur...
YAYOI KUSAMA The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.
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