About Quote by Douglas Coupland

The literary world is more time-traveling than the art world, and novelty is much more important in art than it is in writing.

— Lynne Tillman

I've been in the art world for many years. But the sad fact is that most writers are visually prepubescent. Generally speaking, the literary…

— Richard Grossman

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

— Brian Selznick

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

— Paul Cezanne

I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life: it's a…

— Lawrence Weschler

I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc.

— Rob Chapman

Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other…

— William S. Burroughs

I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think…

— A. S. Byatt

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

— Walter Darby Bannard

To me, writing is about how we see. The writers I want to read teach me how to see-see the world differently. In my…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for…

— Bob Schieffer

It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary.…

— Linda Olsson