Anne Brontë Quote

'I almost wish I were not a painter,' observed my companion.
'Why so? one would think at such a time you would most exult in your privilege of being able to imitate the various brilliant and delightful touches of nature.'
No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of them as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is more vanity and vexation of spirit.'

Helen to Gilbert (Ch. IX : A Snake in the Grass) - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

'I almost wish I were not a painter,' observed my companion. 'Why so? one would think at such a time you would most exult in your privilege of being...

'I almost wish I were not a painter,' observed my companion. 'Why so? one would think at such a time you would most exult in your privilege of being...

'I almost wish I were not a painter,' observed my companion. 'Why so? one would think at such a time you would most exult in your privilege of being...

'I almost wish I were not a painter,' observed my companion. 'Why so? one would think at such a time you would most exult in your privilege of being...