Paintings Quotes

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature

Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?

. . . there were masses of pictures she had not seen; however, Lily Briscoe reflected, perhaps it wa...

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

The image titled “The Homeless, Psalm 85:10,” featured on the cover of ELEMENTAL, can evoke multiple...

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of...

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spec...

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to m...

I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed ...

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

I don't want these. They're mud and they've got no color. Or at least the color is different from wh...

If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressi...