being a painter Quotes

“Jess’ grandfather is acting very strangely. He has always been grumpy and irritable--that’s no different from usual. He has always been a painter, too, obsessed with finishing a painting he’s started and especially nasty to those around him until he does manage to find the inspiration to finish it.”

A slight treatment of a boy’s reaction when an older friend, a painter, commits suicide. His friend had lived upstairs, where Claudio had visited him almost every day.

Linnea has visited Claude Monet’s garden! In Paris, she got to see many of his actual paintings. Now she understands what it means for a painter to be called an Impressionist.