Artist Quote by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

“Writing is like a charcoal painting, a black and white story”

— Dave McDonald

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

— Irving Stone

From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter…

— Joshua Reynolds

Each painting is its own world, but a lot of times I do see the paintings as one page from a story. You can…

— Neil Farber

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

— Peter Greenaway

Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for a reason.…

— Tina Fey

As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a…

— Mary Higgins Clark

Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the…

— Michele Cassou

A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any…

— John F. Carlson

In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the point of…

— Jose Clemente Orozco

I would go so far as to say that a painting is narrative, because I have the moment where I approach it and see…

— Saschka Unseld

What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal.

— Gregory Crewdson