Great writers Quote by Gertrude Stein

“Great writers speak with their works not with their mouths!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“A portrait is a picture with something wrong with the mouth”

— John Singer Sargent

Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.

— John Singer Sargent

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

— Anonymous

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they…

— Philippe Halsman

“What you produce as a writer is art. A voice that opens a vein and leaves the reader lapping at the blood that’s been…

— H.N. Sieverding

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

— Paul Auster

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

— John Singer Sargent

Writing is the painting of the voice.

— Voltaire

“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