French Painter

Famous quotes containing the words french and/or painter:

    “Have ye got the parcel there for Mrs White?
    Ye haven’t! Oh, begorra!
    Say it’s comin’ down tomorra—
    And it might now, Michael, so it might!’”
    —William Percy French (1854–1920)

    “The painter ... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.”
    —Annie Dillard (b. 1945)