“—if a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don’t think,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“crazy,” she’d said, “but I’d be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“And yes—scholars might care about the innovative brushwork and use of light, the historical influence and the unique significance in Dutch art.… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“...the line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn't matter if it's been through the Xerox machine a hundred times.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“That little guy, said Boris in the car on the way to Antwerp. You know the painter saw him-he wasn't painting that… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“You see one painting, I see another, the art book puts it at another remove still, the lady buying the greeting card… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“between ‘reality’ on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, there’s a middle zone, a rainbow edge where… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don't think,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“I think of something I read about Sargent: how in portraiture, Sargent always looked for the animal in the sitter (a tendency… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see and think and feel, you don't think,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“He laughed. “What’s to say? Great paintings—people flock to see them, they draw crowds, they’re reproduced endlessly on coffee mugs and mouse… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“[art] those images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a flower, images that open up some much, much larger… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime? — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. But that Sunday afternoon, as I… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Always remember, the person we’re really working for is the person who’s restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He’s the one we… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“The silence between us was happy and strange, connected by the cord and the icy voices thinly echoing. “You don’t have to talk,” she… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“You didn’t meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“maybe that’s what’s waiting for us at the end of the journey, a majesty unimaginable until the very moment we find ourselves walking through… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
