Painting Quote by M. John Harrison

“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 believe we can only see ourselves in shards of who we really are. Those who care and love us see us whole and…

— Chloe Sierra Goodell

“I am a story-teller, even a story-teller of renown. May I add now that I am not much to look at? No, I am…

— Mukta Singh-Zocchi

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

— Gregory Maguire

“I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to ... I found that I could say…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“I contend that one is likely to find more truth in fiction. A good painting after all is more truthful than a photograph. Remember…

— Vince Vawter

“I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I…

— Oscar Wilde

“I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. Of course, you pretend to…

— John Green

“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

“Long ago I used to mutter (as you probably do), "Very interesting," and cast a desperate glance around for the punch-bowl. This banal comment…

— Sydney J. Harris

“First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humor. Then more details are required…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I drew a self-portrait of myself, drawn with my eyes closed from a memory someone else may or may not have had of me.…

— Jarod Kintz