Abandon Quote by Samuel Morse
“Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.”
“Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.”
![“It quite often makes me feel sad that painting’s like a bad mistress one might have, who’s always spending, spending and it’s never enough.. [Letter 630, Arles, 23 June 1888]” quote by Vincent van Gogh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c69/vincent-van-gogh-486_art-quotes_it-quite-often-makes-me-feel-sad-that-pa_960912.jpg)
![“She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if not palatable at lest understandable. I realize now the time I wasted in this way; instead of enjoying her and turning aside from these preoccupations with the thought…” quote by Lawrence Durrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fee/lawrence-durrell-2169_beautiful_she-took-kisses-like-so-many-coats-of-pa_2883013.jpg)
