Built Quote by John Green

“We drove over a canal and from atop the bridge I could see dozens of houseboats moored along the water. It looked nothing like…

— John Green

“Oh, the sudden change of perspective brought about by travel and absence! How different everything was here: the people in the streets, the houses,…

— Georges Rodenbach

On the way I stood a moment looking out across the marshes with tall cattails, a patch of water, more marsh, then the woods…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“If this had been an old house, with creaking wood, and dark shadows, and heavily panelled walls, there might have been an eerie feeling.…

— Agatha Christie

The idea (for the painting 'Room in New York', 1932, ed.) had been in my mind a long time before I painted it. It…

— Edward Hopper

Going back to that idea that painting sits still and that we give ourselves over to it over time. There's a difference between living…

— Kehinde Wiley

“It looked like an old painting, but real.”

— John Green

Every show I've done, I've just wanted to understand something of this weird life that I woke up in. I've never woken up in…

— Damian Loeb

“This dirty, damp patch of grass—was this really the setting of those years of my childhood, so radiant and winged in my memory? This…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Traditional homes of our old world have been abandoned, windows shattered, roofs collapsing, red and green and blue paint scrubbed into muted shades to…

— Tahereh Mafi

The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am…

— John Constable

From today, painting is dead.

— Paul Delaroche