Art Quote by Devon Monk

“They never saw what the water really was, greenish-black and filled with living things and dying things.”

— Paula Hawkins

“The colour is terrible on her. She could have been dead for ten days. In the water.”

— Leanne Hall

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

— Peter Heller

“There had been a slight shower of rain the previous night, so the world looked like it was painted overnight. It was a wonderful…

— Tshetrim Tharchen

“I felt as though i were being shown a photo of someone well loved, and long dead. I didn't want to be reminded of…

— Emily White

“Death. I thought it would be gardens, perhaps. Beautiful countryside with cool streams. It's only blackness. Nervous and dark. There is no rest there.”

— Robyn Carr

“I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in…

— Joseph Conrad

“It looked nothing like America. It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I…

— John Green

“It seemed as if the colours of the real world around me had begun to drain away from my having done nothing more than…

— Haruki Murakami

“Life is not light, but refracted colour.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Pictures painted with water. Poetry breathed between kisses. Too beautiful to last.”

— Ally Condie

“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