“Is it true that all I ever write you about is painting and nothing else? Isn't there love in my lines to you and between the lines, shining and glowing and quiet and loving, the way a woman should love and the way your woman loves you?”

In a letter to her husband Otto Modersohn, from Berlin, 4 February 1901; as quoted in Voicing our visions, -Writings by women artists; ed. Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York, 1991, p. 201
1900 - 1905

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Is it true that all I ever write you about is painting and nothing else? Isn't there love in my lines to you and betwee…" by Paula Modersohn-Becker?
Paula Modersohn-Becker photo
Paula Modersohn-Becker 55
German artist 1876–1907

Related quotes

Cassandra Clare photo
Jonathan Safran Foer photo
Dennis Lehane photo
Gerry Rafferty photo
Tom Hiddleston photo
Robert Graves photo

“As you are woman, so be lovely:
As you are lovely, so be various,
Merciful as constant, constant as various,
So be mine, as I yours for ever.”

Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist

"Pygmalion to Galatea" from Poems 1914-1926 (1927).
Poems

Pink (singer) photo

“True love, true love.
It must be true love.
Nothing else can break my heart like
True love, true love.
It must be true love.
No one else can break my heart like you.”

Pink (singer) (1979) American singer-songwriter

True Love, featuring Lily Allen, written by Pink, Greg Kurstin and Lily Allen
Song lyrics, The Truth About Love (2012)

Oscar Wilde photo
Jackson Browne photo

“You love the thunder and you love the rain
You know your hunger like you know your name
I know you wonder how you ever came
To be a woman in love with a man in search of the flame”

Jackson Browne (1948) American singer-songwriter

You Love the Thunder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Love_the_Thunder (1977)

Related topics