Art Quote by Robert Genn

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.

— Denis Diderot

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

— Gertrude Stein

I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they…

— Francoise Gilot

I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas…

— Jane Yolen

Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

— Steven Saylor

Whatever artistry may occur within the manuscript, the magic happens for me in the last draft. Whatever I have been resistant to say must…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

— Steven Saylor

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to…

— Howard Hodgkin

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

— Marianne Moore

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

— Pablo Picasso

As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a…

— Mary Higgins Clark

In a sense, I feel like the job of the artist at all times is essentially the same, which is simply to tell the…

— Tony Kushner