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Beautiful Paintings Quotes

Reflections on art, value, and creative discipline.

These quotes explore what draws people to beautiful paintings, from admiring the price tags to being inspired by raw natural talent. Congressman Norm Dicks quotes echo a similar appreciation for what art reveals about human effort.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Nature
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Nov 07, 2020

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.

Quotes by Giorgio Vasari

Finance
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Nov 07, 2020

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

Quotes by Andrew Motion

Beautiful
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Nov 07, 2020

I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn't work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising.

Quotes by Albert Oehlen

Nov 07, 2020

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

Entrepreneurs like Sachin Bansal and musicians such as Vanessa Carlton share a taste for surrounding themselves with fine art. Browse the collection for honest thoughts on chasing visual beauty.

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