Francesca Quotes

.. of what use is a painting which does not realize its aesthetical problem? Underlying all sensible works of art, there must be somewhere in evidence the particular problems understood. It was so with those artists of the great past who had the intellectual knowledge of structure upon which to place their emotions. It is this structural beauty that makes the old [clssical] painting valuable. And so it becomes to me a problem. I would rather be sure that I had placed two colors in true relationship to each other than to have exposed a wealth of emotionalism gone wrong in the name of richness of personal expression... The real artists have always been interested in this problem, and you feel it strongly in the work of [Leonardo] Da Vinci, Piero della Francesca, Courbet, Pissarro, Seurat, and Cezanne. (Marsden Hartley)

She's tired and leans her head on his shoulder, which is the resting place for all their heads, but when Justine and Siobhan and Francesca use his body so shamelessly he doesn't feel the need to turn his head and press his mouth against their hair.

Melina Marchetta

He came third in the state for woodwork,” Francesca explains. "We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.

Melina Marchetta

You shy, Francesca?” Javier asks me later on. I shake my head. "Not really.” I'm just sad, I want to say. And I'm lonely.

Melina Marchetta

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.

Lisa Scottoline

Francesca: It's still a bit cold yet. Michael: Never stopped John and me. Francesca: Yes, well, you're Scottish. Your blood circulates quite well half frozen.

Julia Quinn