Art Quote by Angus Wilson

“Margaret is kindled by it, exalted for a time, sees it as passion, glows and becomes rounded, but only for a time. After a…

— Norman Mailer

“She was a maiden of rarest beauty, and not more lovely than full of glee. And evil was the hour when she saw, and…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“A fit queen for that nest of roses was the human flower that adorned it, for a year of love and luxury had ripened…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Wonderful art can spring from misery,I'm the last person to deny that.I'd go even further:the best works of art of all time are probably…

— Esther Verhoef

“She simply observed herself as a fair product of Nature in the feminine kind, her thoughts seeming to glide into far-off though likely dramas…

— Thomas Hardy

“MARGARET Do I seem composed, sufficiently placid and unmotherly? ALIZON Altogether, except that your earring Trembles a little. MARGARET It's always our touches of…

— Christopher Fry

“I knew a girl and she felt like art. Sometimes colorful, sometimes dull, Sometimes with bright, hopeful eyes, Sometimes only black and white, But…

— Melanie Sargsian

“The gentle maid, whose hapless tale, these melancholy pages speak; say, gracious lady, shall she fail To draw the tear a down from thy…

— Horace Walpole

“Certainly she was wonderfully beautiful. All that could be said of her that was in any sense critical was that there seemed to be…

— Victor Hugo

“She was simple, not being able to adorn herself, but she was unhappy, as one out of her class; for women belong to no…

— Guy de Maupassant

“I know from grim experience that there is a beauty to her inner layers, too. Marvels of symmetry and craftsmanship sealed away inside her…

— Isaac Marion

“Every woman, even the most respectable, had roses blooming under glass; lips cut with a knife; curls of Indian ink; there was design, art,…

— Virginia Woolf