Art Quote by Scott McClanahan

I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.

— Scott McClanahan

“Every painting tells a story.”

— Adrienne Posey

“I don't think painters have the answers about a painting except the painting itself. Anyway, a painting has to have some kind of mystery…

— Elizabeth Kostova

“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

“—if a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don’t think, ‘oh, I…

— Donna Tartt

“I wrote one line about every painting I saw and then did the same in the street: what sight isn't a painting.”

— Zach Savich

“It looked like an old painting, but real.”

— John Green

“You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination.”

— Seth

“The painting was a lie.”

— Sarah J. Maas

It's funny, when things go on the internet now and people say 'that's not real,' well, that's what painting's always done - it's taken…

— Margaux Williamson

“~Paint a pretty picture, it takes one to make it real...”

— Anonymous

“I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel understood.”

— Deb Caletti