But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. (Quote by - George Eliot)

My aim in painting has always been to make the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. (Quote by - Edward Hopper)

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it. (Quote by - Georgia O'Keeffe)

You can't love a crowd the same way you can love a person. And a crowd can't love you the way a single person can love you. Intimacy doesn't scale. Not really. Intimacy is a one-on-one phenomenon. (Quote by - Hugh Macleod)

I actually find the intimacy part really hard; being so close to someone that you hardly know - Camilla just finds it funny! (Quote by - Gethin Jones)

You mustn't kiss on canvas. the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)

At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners. (Quote by - Alice Fulton)

It is not uncommon to meet artists who, from a long neglect of cultivating the necessary intimacy with nature, do not even know her when they see her she appearing a stranger to them, from their being so long habituated to their own representation of her. (Quote by - Sir Joshua Reynolds)

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. (Quote by - Carolyn Heilbrun)

That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives. (Quote by - Francesco Clemente)

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form. (Quote by - Ben Shahn)

For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse,This is me. I'm not proud of it (Quote by - in fact, I'm a little embarrassed by it (Quote by - but this is who I am. (Quote by - Bill Hybels)

Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names. (Quote by - Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. (Quote by - Mark Rothko)