American writer Quote by Donald Barthelme

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

“All things considered, I’ve learned more from talking to painters than talking to writers. Not that painters are smarter than writers, such is seldom…

— Tom Robbins

“Painters have often taught writers how to see.”

— James Baldwin

It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.

— Dore Ashton

In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly…

— Carolyn Kizer

I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway . Everybody's…

— Clive Barker

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

— Anthony Browne

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 painters could be identified by dirty fingernails; the writers by conversation in labored monosyllables and aggressive vulgarities which disguised their minds.”

— William Gaddis

The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as the idea…

— Jackson Pollock

I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas…

— Jane Yolen

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.

— Anonymous