#pain

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful. ↗

— Barry Diller

#made #painful #reality #reasons #too

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. ↗

— Otto Dix

#know #paints #portrait #possible #should

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally. ↗

— Eleanora Duse

#i #made #morally #myself #paint

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#i #i think #life #limited #painting

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#intended #old #paintings #read #sure

But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell. ↗

— Howard Finster

#art #come #criticism #enough #feeling

Oh, honey, of course it hurts! Beauty is pain. But you don't want to look like a troll, do you? ↗

— Libba Bray

#pain #beauty

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

#arts #college #coming #degree #fine

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#effective #every #inch #matter #paint

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#function #his #model #only #painter