#pain

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#art school #brooklyn #call #comics #east

Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you--and you won't let them do anything for fear you'll be hurt. That's selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight? ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#fighting #love #pain #family

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#command #discreet #faithful #good #good manners

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit. ↗

— George Grosz

#cult #genius #greater #individuality #itself

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century. ↗

— John Guare

#any #art #century #does #expensive

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over. ↗

— Philip Guston

#come #delirium #i #i am #into

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. ↗

— Philip Guston

#magic #painting #piece #see #you

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation. ↗

— Philip Guston

#gong #inspired #like #look #painting

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined. ↗

— Philip Guston

#am #arbitrary #arrives #destined #falls

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing. ↗

— Philip Guston

#picturing #possessing #rather #than