Painting Quote by Chaim Potok

“The photos stirred feelings she couldn't quite frame in words, and this, she decided, must mean they were true works of art.”

— Celeste Ng

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

— Peter Heller

“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

“Character, that subtle art, disappeared among them during those days and nights, existed only in a book or on a painted wall.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“The most beautiful paintings in existence today are the ones which were not painted by anyone.”

— Karel Teige

“She looked just like a painting dying to speak.”

— Aeschylus

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

— Paul Gardner

“I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I…

— Oscar Wilde

“Like the perfect collision of oils on a canvas. She was a walking piece of art. Words and all.”

— Candace Knoebel

“It looked like an old painting, but real.”

— John Green

“I don't think painters have the answers about a painting except the painting itself. Anyway, a painting has to have some kind of mystery…

— Elizabeth Kostova

“I'm painting moments. Unrepeatable, singular moments of light.”

— Christopher Moore