Art Quote by C.S. Richardson

“He ached for creation. For life to somehow rise from the drawings in his sketching book. For his own energy, his own impressions to swirl and spin on a canvas. For a dream city he had tacked above his bed.” quote by C.S. Richardson — Download Open image

““He ached for creation. For life to somehow rise from the drawings in his sketching book. For his own energy, his own impressions to swirl and spin on a canvas. For a dream city he had tacked above his bed.””

C.S. Richardson

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings)

More by C.S. Richardson

“Here was the place I usually found myself in, Grenelle replied. It wouldn't take long to lose its excitement. There was the place over…

C.S. Richardson

Image

“For weeks Octavio returned to the shelter of the trees. The woman would appear as the sun reached midday. She would walk to the edge of the trees, find her chair and drag it to the boat pond. Every Sunday the same chair, the same spot. Every Sunday a book. He needed only one word to imagine a hundred stories:…

C.S. Richardson

“With the proper amount of squint.”

C.S. Richardson

Image

“He believed women to be quantifiably wiser than men. He was neither a breast nor a leg nor an ass man; hair could be…

C.S. Richardson

Image

“Migliaia di parole le svolazzavano in testa, ma non riusciva a farne atterrare sulla pagina nemmeno una.”

C.S. Richardson

Image

“But times, as are their custom, had changed.”

C.S. Richardson

Image

“...painted by a troubled young man, Mrs. Zephyr was saying... cut off part of his own ear... Ambrose went back to looking. What he…

C.S. Richardson

Image

“A man can see a hundred women, lust for a thousand more, but it is one scent that will open his eyes and turn…

C.S. Richardson

Image

“When his father asked why A wasn't apple or B wasn't bird or C wasn't cat, young Ambrose explained that things didn't always have…

C.S. Richardson

Image

“In the face of all reason she was interested in him as he was. Not as he wished he was.”

C.S. Richardson

Image

“The problem is that you are too much in love. You are here because your parents mentioned your name to someone who mentioned your…

C.S. Richardson

Image

“Le aveva detto che era stato lui a insegnare a un nipote fastidiosamente curioso a leggere i sottotitoli della vita.”

C.S. Richardson

Image

Explore all 15 C.S. Richardson quotes

More Art quotes

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and…

Benjamin Franklin

“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

Aeschylus

Image

I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

Aaron Rose

Image

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Erich Fromm

Image

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Ray Bradbury

Image

“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

Justina Chen Headley