Communication Quote by William Gaddis

“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 painters were teenage girls and young women who became friendly during their hours together and entertained themselves during breaks by playing with the…

— Deborah Blum

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a…

— Edward Hopper

“Painters have often taught writers how to see.”

— James Baldwin

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

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Musicians have notes. Painters have paint. Writers have words.”

— Lisa Fantino

“Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re all the…

— Anonymous

“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

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a…

— Donald Barthelme

“He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, guttural verbs, and the word “postmodernist.”

— Donna Tartt

“I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Robert Baldwin Ross