Art Quote by Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea

“The paintings had a strange quality: they were figurative but there were no figures in them. They looked as if they might suddenly dissolve.”

— Chaim Potok

“That's initially what got me interested in painting, is that I could create any kind of world that I wanted. No bad stuff here.…

— Bob Ross

“~Paint a pretty picture, it takes one to make it real...”

— Anonymous

“On the surface, there was always an impeccably realistic world, but underneath, behind the backdrop's cracked canvas, lurked something different, something mysterious or abstract.”

— Milan Kundera

“This was the photograph, I knew, that had already burned its way into my dreams and my shadows, into that part of my mind…

— Dennis Lehane

“The painter's face curdled with scorn "You think I'm proud of this daub?" he said. "You think this is my idea of what life…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I…

— Oscar Wilde

“It looked like an old painting, but real.”

— John Green

“The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”

— Pablo Picasso

“I had painted a lot of landscapes, had stood before many while they burned their remote beauty into my skin, but had never done…

— Peter Heller

“I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel understood.”

— Deb Caletti

“Your paintings are staggeringly beautiful. Did I ever tell you that,or was I just too concerned that you weren't going to earn a living?…

— Rosamund Lupton