Dacia Maraini Quote

A painter's hand has a thirst for thieving, it steals from heaven and makes a gift to the memories of men, it feigns eternity and it delights in this pretence almost as if it had created rules of its own, more durable and more profoundly true.

The Silent Duchess (ed. Feminist Press at CUNY, 2000) - ISBN: 9781558612228