71 Quotes About Paintings

Poems are word paintings. Poetry doesn’t belong to time. That’s why often you feel as if poems are speaking directly to you.

“I would’ve followed you anywhere,” he mumbles, his voice raw with agony. “All I ever wanted was to spend forever with my best friend. With the girl who gave life to my paintings. But I’m not the one who inspired your mosaics, am I? It was always Wonderland. That’s why you chose him.”“Chose him? It was a kiss, that’s all—”“It’s not the kiss. Sometimes words are louder than actions.”“Words . . . ? What words?”“The promise you gave him that you couldn’t give me.”

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

. . . there were masses of pictures she had not seen; however, Lily Briscoe reflected, perhaps it was better not to see pictures: they only made one hopelessly discontented with one’s own work.

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

If Van Gogh were walking around, everyone would run away because he had no ear, but if he was holding his paintings they would be nice to him. She's holding her paintings and she's good at it.

When technology takes over every aspect of our lives, we won’t care anymore about the data but poems, songs, paintings and other creative arts.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

The wall between writing and painting is just good grammar. Moderation in moderation. Fun is scary with a happy ending. Just love. If love doesn’t transform that which annoys you, it will be easier to tolerate.