Brushes Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

“Just as a painter paints, and a ponderer ponders, a writer writes, and a wanderer wanders.”

— Roman Payne

“Painters have often taught writers how to see.”

— James Baldwin

“Every writer dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“A great writer weaves words like a painter mixes colors.”

— James D. Maxon

You can be sure that a painter reveals himself in his work as much as and more than a writer does in his.

— Denis Diderot

“Every painting tells a story.”

— Adrienne Posey

“An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.”

— Darrell Case

“I remember the first time I saw my favorite painting, how its fragile beauty caught my breath. And I thought if the artist had…

— Lang Leav

“With you as an inspiration, a painter will create his best painting, a writer will write his best literature and a poet will create…

— Amit Kalantri

Every time somebody writes a theory about where literature's going, that person is not only contributing thought but nudging things to happen in one…

— Ted Kooser

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

— Gertrude Stein

“In her book The Writing Life (1989), Annie Dillard tells the story of a fellow writer who was asked by a student, "Do you…

— Stanley Fish