Oh, to Be a Painter! Quotes

“We are beholding a world which has gone beneath the waves.”
― Virginia Woolf, Oh, to Be a Painter!

“A meaning is given to familiar things that makes them strange. Not a word sounds and yet the room is full of conversations.”
― Virginia Woolf, Oh, to Be a Painter!

“We can say for certain that a writer whose writing appeals mainly to the eye is a bad writer; that if in describing, say, a meeting in a garden he describes roses, lilies, carnations, and shadows on the grass, so that we can see them, but allows to be inferred from them ideas, motives, impulses, and emotions, it is that he is incapable of using his medium for the purposes for which it was created, and is as a writer a man without legs.

Pictures, 1925”
― Virginia Woolf, Oh, to Be a Painter!