Novelists Quote by Virginia Woolf

“He said, I suppose there are people who are purely moved by great art. I never met a painter who was. I'm not. All…

— John Fowles

“Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else?”

— Gregory Maguire

“Good painters imitate nature, but bad ones spew it up.”

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“This is what the great artists manage. They flatter us, by observing better than others and then speaking to each of us as individuals…

— Tristan Gooley

“the artist sees things that normal people are in too big a hurry to see.”

— Anne Charnock

“There was nothing particularly striking about them except that they were artists of the kind that talk. Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout…

— Sherwood Anderson

“There's so many dimensions to me. I am not a flat surface that can express myself like a painting, but more like a sculpture…

— K.K. Cook

“There is often as much sincerity, labour, and thought in bad painting as in good.”

— Robert Baldwin Ross

“What interested these painters was evidently the fact that my clothes were torn off, which allowed them to paint a naked woman in distress,…

— Margaret Atwood

“The world was so unbearably pretty, and it continued being so all the way down the mountain to school. I felt slightly high because…

— Douglas Coupland

“The paintings had a strange quality: they were figurative but there were no figures in them. They looked as if they might suddenly dissolve.”

— Chaim Potok

“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not…

— Chaim Potok