Famous quotes containing the words western and/or painting:
“Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
“For the bright side of the painting I had a limited sympathy. My visions were of shipwreck and famine; of death or captivity among barbarian hordes; of a lifetime dragged out in sorrow and tears, upon some gray and desolate rock, in an ocean unapproachable and unknown.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)