Painting Quote by Ali Smith

“For a while, for as long as you're looking at it, that painting is the world and you get to be in it.”

— Cath Crowley

“I went over to the painting and looked closely. It had changed in my absence, something paintings liked to do.”

— Peter Heller

“What I liked most was that George had class, the way he walked and talked, reading Shakespeare and all those books. He knew about…

— Bruce Porter

“She painted because she loved to paint. She never exhibited. She had no career, no ambitions for her work except that it be good,…

— Michael Ignatieff

“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

“and then it was like there was a split in the world and George could see out of it, and glimpse the endless machinery…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“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 was finally all clicking together. Her life had a purpose after all. Every life had a purpose and she promised herself that she…

— Ina Zajac

“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

“The photos stirred feelings she couldn't quite frame in words, and this, she decided, must mean they were true works of art.”

— Celeste Ng

“... and people who have kids, people with husbands and jobs and mortgages, don't much want to hear about other people's paintings.”

— Michele Young-Stone

“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