“There was all the difference in the world between this planning airily away from the canvas and actually taking her brush and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Why then did she do it? She looked at the canvas, lightly scored with running lines. It would be hung in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“They are very large in effect, these painters; very little self-conscious; they have smooth broad spaces in their minds where I am… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
