Moving Quote by Anonymous

“Art moves them and they don't know what they've been moved by and they get quite drunk on it.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination.”

— Seth

“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

“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

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

— Peter Heller

“I like that about art, that what you see is sometimes more about who you are than what's on the wall.”

— Cath Crowley

“... 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

“Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.”

— Paul Klee

“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

“A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.”

— Paul Gardner

“Art is a house that tries to be haunted.”

— Emily Dickinson

“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