Art Quote by Jandy Nelson

“He’s the foreground of the painting that is your life together. You’re the background. You like it that way.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“I like that about art, that what you see is sometimes more about who you are than what's on the wall.”

— Cath Crowley

“If we were in a room full of art, I would stare at her.”

— Kia Amazona

“A face like yours makes men stumble over themselves.” He tilted his head to look at me through a new angle. “Faces like yours…

— Belle Aurora

“Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else?”

— Gregory Maguire

“I remember his eyes. They are just like mine. Every time I look in the mirror I see him. I try not to look…

— Ida Løkås

“His face was neither handsome nor anything else. It just was.”

— Tarjei Vesaas

“I love the way he’s staring at me. It makes me feel more than just beautiful. I feel like I’m his. Like no one…

— Krista Ritchie

“But I do not want to paint our circumstantial portraits so that we both emerge with enough well-rounded, spuriously detailed actuality that you are…

— Angela Carter

“I think that bothers me more than anything. That he could look in my eyes and tell me something that is completely contrary to…

— Lang Leav

“You can find art and beauty in everything, if you look hard enough. But your beauty is just staring you in the face.”

— Karina Halle

“And since I am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful?”

— Robin McKinley