Backgrounds Quote by Janet Burroway

You don't necessarily get the background of a character every time, So, you have to create it mentally and write about it. This is…

— Sanya Malhotra

I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.

— Dexter Fletcher

Unlike the background in many of the paintings that I was inspired by or paintings that I borrowed poses from - the great European…

— Kehinde Wiley

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some…

— Alan Lightman

Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.

— John M. Ford

Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.

— Josip Novakovich

So much of my work is defined by the difference between the figure in the foreground and the background. Very early in my career,…

— Kehinde Wiley

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

— Jamie Wyeth

Almost as though the painting itself becomes the embodiment of a type of struggle for visibility, and this might be considered the main subject…

— Kehinde Wiley

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

— Roy Lichtenstein

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather…

— Ben Shahn

It is ultimately character that underwrites art.

— Anne Truitt