Art Quote by Garth Risk Hallberg

“As a child I used to lie on the floor with my eyes tightly closed and hope that people would walk past without noticing…

— Jerzy Kosiński

“I watched the kids walking past us on the sidewalk. They looked pretty much like any other kids. They were dressed for each other.…

— Robert B. Parker

“He had hidden in a city filled with black glass. But its surfaces made poor reflections, clinging jealously to their color as if they…

— Conrad Williams

“I held up my glass and stared through it, where things looked as distorted as they really were.”

— Kami Garcia

“Child, if you forever hide in the shadows, watching life through a window, you will miss the many lessons learned by simply living.”

— Nancy Wald

“But I had no idea what I looked like. Children may feel epic and large to theyselves and yet be only scraps to view.”

— Sebastian Barry

“Through them, I was able to make a turn in myself, and somehow that view from the window seen alone and at night has…

— Siri Hustvedt

“It was sometimes best, when you came to the mystery that was art, to come as a child. The child saw things that were…

— William Gibson

“It was one of those moments when you can look in someone else’s eyes and see your own reflection so sharp and true that…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“I didn’t tell him that I grew up in an ugly city that taught me how to look between dust and rubbish and potholes…

— Kamila Shamsie

“Those who can see but lack imagination are blind.”

— Nigel Hems

“I hope that nobody has ever had to look at anybody they love through glass.”

— James Baldwin