“ Since the world is ending,” Peter quoted from behind us, “why not let the children touch the paintings? Ben Lerner
“ My eyes roved over the walls covered with my collages and prints of famous paintings. Magritte, Kandinsky, Kahlo. My origami shapes hung from fishing wire, dangling over my bed. They shivered in the s… Heather Demetrios
“ You can't dance to paintings. This is something Ben said, during one of our White Cube conversations, back when I was still wrong about him. He said it even though, at the time, he was desperately try… Sara Baume
“ Nor that he's regarding my face with the same intensity I am his. We're two paintings staring at each other across a room. Jandy Nelson
“ The image titled “The Homeless, Psalm 85:10,” featured on the cover of ELEMENTAL, can evoke multiple levels of response. They may include the spiritual in the form of a studied meditation upon the mul… Aberjhani
“ Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“ . . . 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. Virginia Woolf
“ There is nothing to be found in human eyes, and that is their terrifying and dolorous enigma, their abominable and delusive charm. There is nothing but that which we put there ourselves. That is why h… Jean Lorrain
“ Poems are word paintings. Poetry doesn’t belong to time. That’s why often you feel as if poems are speaking directly to you. Salil Jha
“ We view art in order to escape our own skins, to get outside of the commotion inside our skulls. Kilroy J. Oldster
