In Fiction and Music
- Kitty (1945) is a notable fictional film about Gainsborough, portrayed by Cecil Kellaway.
- In the song 20th Century Man from the Kinks' 1971 album Muswell Hillbillies, Ray Davies lists Gainsborough as one of the painters he prefers to "your smart modern painters."
Read more about this topic: Thomas Gainsborough
Famous quotes containing the words fiction and/or music:
“One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
“How little it takes to make us happy! The sound of a bagpipe.—Without music life would be a mistake. The German even imagines God as singing songs.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)