Chairs Quote by Bernard Malamud

“Painters have often taught writers how to see.”

— James Baldwin

“When people really are writers, they write. Artists draw. Golfers golf. Fish swim. Can’t keep them from it; it’s who they are. They may…

— David Brisbin

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate…

— Lynne Truss

“Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn't pay much, unless you're very successful. It's who we are.”

— Lori Ann Lesko

Every time somebody writes a theory about where literature's going, that person is not only contributing thought but nudging things to happen in one…

— Ted Kooser

The narrative image has more dimensions than the painted image - literature is more complex than painting. Initially, this complexity represents a disadvantage, because…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their…

— Criss Jami

“The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them; they should…

— Wallace Stegner

I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they…

— Stanley Kubrick

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

— Peter Greenaway

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a…

— Donald Barthelme

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

— W. Somerset Maugham