Affect Quote by Stefan Bachmann

“I went over to the painting and looked closely. It had changed in my absence, something paintings liked to do.”

— Peter Heller

“For a while, for as long as you're looking at it, that painting is the world and you get to be in it.”

— Cath Crowley

“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 discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.”

— Julia Child

“A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.”

— Paul Gardner

“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

“He hesitated. "Don't you see? You're like a favorite painting. A found masterpiece, I loved both for things remembered and those newly discovered.”

— Amanda Gray

“..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

“I cannot remember a single painting, although I do remember trying hard to be deeply impressed by them at the time.”

— Iain Pears

“After I see a painting, I go into a room, I close my eyes and I slowly escape into the beauty of the painting.…

— Srinidhi.R

“Paint what you know, especially if it looks like something you shouldn't know.”

— Andrew Levy

“She looked just like a painting dying to speak.”

— Aeschylus