Painting Quote by Andrzej Stasiuk

“That was the problem with having walls so hard and high and unscalable…When they came down, they crumbled completely, shattering into nothingness.”

— L.J. Smith

“Perhaps, over the years, like most things, the walls had aged. Thinned. Worn thin by the day to day endlessness of its own existence.”

— Chesya Burke

“For it looked as if the walls were simply dissolving in the rain; those stones still standing, pale and insubstantial as rice paper, seemed…

— Diane Setterfield

“The apartment was merely a collection of looted, hollowed out shades of paint.”

— Abby Slovin

“When a crumbling house reaches a certain point, there’s no fixing it. You tear it down. You clear the rubble, and then you build…

— Amanda Bouchet

“The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old, but more importantly, trodden upon.”

— Martin Hopkins

“Maybe the hardened clay was not as ugly as I had thought. Maybe what I resented was the color my father had painted me.…

— Zohreh Ghahremani

“The bleached ceilings, walls, and floors gleam in perfection. Drained of color, wiped of contamination, forever untainted they exist; a cold reminder of my…

— Celeste Simone

“This was the problem with having walls so hard and high and unscalable, she supposed. When they came down, they crumbled completely, shattering into…

— LJ Smith

“But down deeper, something I'd seen as solid-- not perfect, but solid-- was suddenly crumbling. I felt like I was falling to pieces right…

— Sarah Dessen

“She was a clay pot, and she’d been broken in pieces. There used to be something inside her, and now that it had spilled…

— Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

“The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now…

— Virginia Woolf