Big picture Quote by Steven Saylor

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 like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in…

— Julian Schnabel

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

— Joseph Raffael

I don’t like to talk about what my paintings mean since they are so personal, so I like to leave it up to the…

— Lori Earley

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

— Ken Danby

“Painters have often taught writers how to see.”

— James Baldwin

The narrative image has more dimensions than the painted image - literature is more complex than painting. Initially, this complexity represents a disadvantage, because…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

— Peter Webber

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

— Channing Dungey

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at.

— Cheryl Richardson

I do feel that both visual artists and writers look out at the world in a similar way, and wonder at what they see.…

— Connie Wanek

“The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns of our vision are…

— Siri Hustvedt