Artist Quote by Jonathan Franzen

“The photos stirred feelings she couldn't quite frame in words, and this, she decided, must mean they were true works of art.”

— Celeste Ng

“Just as a painter paints, and a ponderer ponders, a writer writes, and a wanderer wanders.”

— Roman Payne

“She had never seen me draw–because not drawing and forgetting everything I knew about art, I thought, was the magic key to my becoming…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Her mind turned to those paintings. The locked treasure chest, the masks, the dark woods. Those symbols were emblematic of her own secret pain—the…

— Michelle Marcos

“She drew the things that stuck to her mind, the things that caught her attention and, specially, the things she wasn't capable of understanding…

— Zøe Haslie

“She painted because she loved to paint. She never exhibited. She had no career, no ambitions for her work except that it be good,…

— Michael Ignatieff

“I went over to the painting and looked closely. It had changed in my absence, something paintings liked to do.”

— Peter Heller

“This time when she picked up her paints, she didn’t think, she just painted. It was like opening the door onto a storm. The…

— Michelle Frost

“I like that about art, that what you see is sometimes more about who you are than what’s on the wall. I look at…

— Cath Crowley

“She thought of all the people in all the paintings she had seen that day, not just Father's, in all the paintings of the…

— Susan Vreeland

“I paint the beautiful pictures in my mind with words.”

— Graylin Fox

“The paintings had a strange quality: they were figurative but there were no figures in them. They looked as if they might suddenly dissolve.”

— Chaim Potok