Novelists Quote by Virginia Woolf

That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes…

— Virginia Woolf

Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ...

— Virginia Woolf

To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must pluck with…

— Virginia Woolf

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a…

— Virginia Woolf

I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians, I've been…

— Anton Corbijn

“Great British painters, one might say, imitate the proverbial behaviour of buses. None come along for a century or more, then two at the…

— Martin Gayford

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of…

— Georg Baselitz

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

— Paul Cezanne

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.

— John Constable

I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I…

— Josef Albers

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying…

— Paul Gauguin

It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot