Fixed Quote by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

“Mrs. Tulliver was what is called a good-tempered person,–never cried, when she was a baby, on any slighter ground than hunger and pins; and…

— George Eliot

In our minds lives the madonna image--the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another at her…

— Lillian B. Rubin

“I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features would be coarse beside her pale luminous…

— Philippa Gregory

“Pre-Raphaelites they called themselves; not that they imitated the early Italian masters at all, but that in their work, as opposed to the facile…

— Oscar Wilde

“She wore a loose-fitting purple velvet Pre-Raphaelite gown, and her abundant dark-brown hair flowed down her back and shoulders to her waist. As she…

— Gary Inbinder

“Had she been born 500 years sooner, Raphael would have chosen her as a model for his cherubs. Tendrils of bright red hair framed…

— E. L. Konigsburg

Mothers are artists, for anything they touch turns to art.

— Kishore Bansal

“Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist. I do not mean by this that every woman should be a painter, sculptor, musician,…

— Anonymous

“Her mind turned to those paintings. The locked treasure chest, the masks, the dark woods. Those symbols were emblematic of her own secret pain—the…

— Michelle Marcos

Mom's paintings are a very small part of the legacy she left behind.

— Benigno Aquino III

Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos

— Alice Randall

“The two of us praying like this to the Black Madonna Sudenly washes over me, and I'm filled with love for my mother. The…

— ann kidd taylor