Painting Quote by Will Wight

“That man, especially when he slept, when his features were motionless, showed me my own face, my mask, the flawlessly pure image of my…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Wingate sighs thoughtfully. "Hard to say. He's not static. He began with almost pure Impressionism, which is dead. Anyone can do it. But the…

— Greg Iles

“Look at this one.” I picked up a small painting of a man with dark hair and a short, dark beard. He wore a…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

“And if what they say is true--if every great painting is really a self-portrait--what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself?”

— Donna Tartt

“he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence and it…

— Douglas Adams

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

— Gregory Maguire

“The artist striving for truth or sincerity had to guard his spontaneous vision against distortion or alteration by aesthetic conventions or preconceptions.”

— Linda Nochlin

“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to…

— Susanna Clarke

“Much later on, I read a statement of Bruce Nauman's: “Art is a matter of life and death.” It sounds melodramatic, but it's so…

— Marina Abramović

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions…

— Oscar Wilde

“He connected with the storytelling in the manuscript painting, he said, because it was clear to him that this artist, working hundreds of years…

— Christian Madsbjerg

“When he worked on this painting, he felt sometimes as if he were flying, as if the world of galleries and parties and other…

— Hanya Yanagihara