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“Painting for him, she had realized then, was neither a hobby nor just a way of earning a living. It was a passion and…

— Mary Balogh

“Her life is lived through the masterpiece of art, that she cannot draw.”

— Nikki Rowe

“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

“Like all paintings, the portrait was ruined at the first stroke of paint; it would never be exactly as she had imagined it, and…

— Christopher Bollen

“The years lay spread out before her, spacious untouched canvases on which she was presently going to paint the picture of her life. It…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“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 wanted because art”

— Nicole Brossard

“Life is a canvas to her, and she’s painting it every day.”

— Shireen Ayache

“..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“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

“The most beautiful paintings in existence today are the ones which were not painted by anyone.”

— Karel Teige