Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
~By Michelangelo ~
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
~By Jim Morrison ~
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
~By Edgar Degas ~
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
~By Graham Greene ~
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
~By Christopher Morley ~
To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.
~By Andre Malraux ~
Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.
~By Charles Churchill ~
Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.
~By John French Sloan ~
I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
~By Howard Hodgkin ~
I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.
~By Jackie DeShannon ~
Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.
~By Steven Soderbergh ~
When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.
~By Frank Stella ~
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
~By Maya Angelou ~
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
~By Diane Wakoski ~
What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
~By Edward Hopper ~
Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
~By Drew Barrymore ~
Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
~By Fiona Shaw ~
Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
~By Thomas Hood ~
Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.
~By Robyn Hitchcock ~
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
~By Amy Tan ~
All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
~By Chuck Close ~
I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise.
~By Leslie Easterbrook ~
Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
~By Ada Cambridge ~
I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.
~By Lucas Grabeel ~
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
~By James Thomson ~
I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
~By Sugar Ray Leonard ~
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
~By Boris Pasternak ~
I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether my remarks might cause someone pain.
~By John Hall ~
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
~By Ethel Barrymore ~
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
~By Norman Cousins ~
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.
~By Pamela Stephenson ~
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.
~By William Scott ~
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.
~By Richard Lugar ~
I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.
~By Philip Guston ~
The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.
~By Katherine Whitehorn ~
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.
~By Kazimir Malevich ~
Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.
~By Mike Gordon ~
Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
~By William C. Bryant ~
You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.
~By Chuck Close ~
Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, "Thank you?"
~By Jimmy Fallon ~
From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.
~By Reynolds Price ~
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
~By Andrew Wyeth ~
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
~By Balthus ~
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
~By Barbara Smith ~
But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!
~By Norman MacCaig ~
I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
~By Mark Tobey ~
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
~By Frank Stella ~
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.
~By Jodie Foster ~
I still love a lot of the guys who just paint.
~By Bill Sienkiewicz ~
I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
~By Peter Max ~
The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.
~By Sherrod Brown ~
My overall message for labor members is... that we understand that the benefits of trade are clear, but the disruption and the dislocation are painfully concentrated and we can't ignore them.
~By Alexis Herman ~
When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances.
~By Dougray Scott ~
It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.
~By Aime Cesaire ~
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
~By Salman Rushdie ~
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
~By Andrew Wyeth ~
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
~By Lionel Trilling ~
I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment.
~By Peter Steele ~
Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
~By Garry Trudeau ~
I was taught that pain is bad.
~By Keith Miller ~
I like to paint nudes mostly.
~By Cleo Moore ~
When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.
~By Andrew Shue ~
If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
~By Ed O'Brien ~
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
~By William Hazlitt ~
When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't.
~By Lucian Freud ~
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.
~By Lena Horne ~
Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.
~By Camille Pissarro ~
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.
~By Louis-Ferdinand Celine ~
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
~By Emily Carr ~
I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.
~By Vincente Minnelli ~
I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.
~By Peter Wright ~
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.
~By Sally Quinn ~
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.
~By Alberto Giacometti ~
The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.
~By Jurgen Habermas ~
I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.
~By Lee Scott ~
Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.
~By Rosanne Cash ~
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
~By Bridget Riley ~
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
~By Lord Byron ~
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.
~By Whitey Ford ~
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.
~By Morris Graves ~
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
~By George Eliot ~
I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
~By Roy Lichtenstein ~
Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.
~By William Allan ~
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
~By Thomas Moore ~
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
~By Michelangelo ~
I told him that I can play it if he wanted to write it, and I would be willing to try and go there emotionally. I did not know as an actress if I would be able to get there, because when you feel really deep emotions or pain, you don't want to go back there.
~By Hunter Tylo ~
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