On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger's considered view of the painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of view, was that it had cost forty-seven thousand pounds, plus VAT.
John LanchesterTag: art expenses worth paintings costs
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 ZafónTag: books home house memories paintings walls permeate imprisoned spectre
Outside, the sunlight had turned pale lemon, but the studio remained cool. The white walls and white-tiled splashback behind the sink were made more clinical by the metal tables which looked as if they’d originally been intended for use in an operating theatre. Even though they were laid out with brushes and paints rather than forceps and retractors, the effect was equally daunting; both sets of tools could open you up in strange and unexpected ways.
Christine StovellTag: paintings contemporary-romance romantic-comedy
:Paintings are easy to see," he said after a moment. "Open, presented flat to the eye. Words are not easy. Words have to be discovered, deep in their pages, deciphered, translated, read. Words are symbols to be encoded, their letters trees in a forest, enmeshed, their tangled meanings never finally picked apart.
Catherine FisherTag: words read meaning forest paintings symbols
I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a
painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946
Tag: paintings writing-process
[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively anxious or desirous, and of losing ourselves to vanity and error. Surreptitiously and beguilingly, then, with humour or gravity, works of art--novels, poems, plays, paintings or films--can function as vehicles to explain our condition to us. They may act as guides to a truer, more judicious, more intelligent understanding of the world.
Alain de BottonTag: humor life art vanity understanding criticism novels films desire plays paintings poems gravity anxiety self-understanding
The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
Salvador DalíTag: paintings true-to-life pictures portrait resemble
We don't see the world as a botanist who is at the same time an architect, a physician, a geologist, and a ship's captain. Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree...
Sten NadolnyTag: perception paintings impressionism
Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.
Paul AusterTag: time paintings painting image images
I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting.
Scott McClanahanTag: art fiction paintings nonfiction fictional
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