Alone Quote by Tim Relf

“I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in…

— Joseph Conrad

“There had been a slight shower of rain the previous night, so the world looked like it was painted overnight. It was a wonderful…

— Tshetrim Tharchen

“I remember that a couple, both tall and thin, turned away from a painting and peered over as if I might be an ex-lover…

— Roberto Bolaño

“Now I really feel like a canvas. They will paint me, as Ani says. Like an artist with a brush. Turning something dead and…

— Katherine Lindsay Stoops

“I was a masterpiece; a painting in itself. He was changing me, molding me, and making me into something brand new. I was a…

— Evelyn Deshane

“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

“It was just an ordinary night. He didn’t think anything extraordinary would happen. Until it did. Turning a corner onto the bustling night time…

— L.H. Cosway

“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 wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams.”

— Zdzisław Beksiński

“I was reminded of a painter friend who had started her career by depicting scenes from life, mainly deserted rooms, abandoned houses and discarded…

— Azar Nafisi

“...I opened my eyes as if to a new beginning; nothing I saw was familiar to me, my head was empty, no thoughts, everything…

— Per Petterson