But trying to be a painter did teach me to look at the world in a very particular way—looking very closely at things, at colors, at how things form themselves in space — and I've always been grateful for that. You have all this space, and you have a figure: what do you do with it? And in a way that's what all art is. How do we find a place for our creatures, or inventions, in this incoherent space into which we're thrown?


John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200 (2009)

John Banville Quotes

But trying to be a painter did teach me to look at the world in a very particular way—looking very closely at things, at colors, at how things form ...

But trying to be a painter did teach me to look at the world in a very particular way—looking very closely at things, at colors, at how things form ...

But trying to be a painter did teach me to look at the world in a very particular way—looking very closely at things, at colors, at how things form ...

But trying to be a painter did teach me to look at the world in a very particular way—looking very closely at things, at colors, at how things form ...