Art Quote by Antonya Nelson

“Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“One thing in the school was captivating, lovely. Pictures of birds. Rose didn’t know if the teacher had climbed up and nailed them above…

— Alice Munro

“He traced the shape of the bird, wondering what she could have done to merit writing herself a memo on her body. “It’s a…

— Ruthie Knox

Sadly, bird illustration has always been an under-appreciated art.

— John Burnside

“He had a tattoo of a bird on his neck done by someone with an ill-formed notion of their appearance.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“was a bird. A bird struggling through stickiness: a bird coated in paint, floundering in its nest, splashing color everywhere. Red. Red. Red. Dozens…

— Lauren Oliver

Birds are hard to draw. I read recently that Katsuhiro Otomo also says he has trouble drawing animals, and while it made me feel…

— Stuart Immonen

When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in…

— Edward Ruscha

On the board was a list of words and phrases which her mother considered not suitable for use in college T-shirt design. She had…

— Hilary McKay

Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their…

— Georges Braque

Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two…

— John Gould

Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the…

— Terry Kay