#pain

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#catholic #certain #certain way #death #die

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

#beautiful paintings #been #begun #brought #children

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. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#big #follow #go #how #i

You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it. ... You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes - sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#pain #silence #beauty

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. ↗

— Mos Def

#economy #effective #ends #entire #i

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#difficult #easy #how #know #painting

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#give #idea #means #must #painting

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#arts #connected #fine #fine arts #i

I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#i #i can #painful #particularly #say

Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives. ↗

— Ally Condie

#inspiring #painting #singing #writing #beauty