Ad-posey Quote by Adrienne Posey

“I wrote one line about every painting I saw and then did the same in the street: what sight isn't a painting.”

— Zach Savich

“Tell the story behind your art.”

— Paul Jarvis

“Every picture tells a story. But sometimes it's hard to know what story is actually being told.”

— Anastasia Hollings

“good art illustrates anything at all, it’s likely to be a story you didn’t even know needed telling.”

— David Salle

“It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same…

— Luther E. Vann

“—if a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don’t think, ‘oh, I…

— Donna Tartt

“The painting was a lie.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“every good artist paints what he is”

— Jackson Pollock

“I contend that one is likely to find more truth in fiction. A good painting after all is more truthful than a photograph. Remember…

— Vince Vawter

“Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything.”

— Lisa Cron

“Painters have often taught writers how to see.”

— James Baldwin

“Art, after all, is - at its best - a lie that tells us the truth.”

— Nam Le