#pain

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost! ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#could #eye #eyes #how #long

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? ↗

— Bernard Levin

#contemplate #dog #equipped #happened #only

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility. ↗

— Jack Levine

#now #painting #recollected #something #tranquility

Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#covers #dementia #everything #pain #wonderful

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#build #complete #could #everything #further

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#into #itself #like #look #looks

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#loss #love #pain #friendship

Ain’t nothing wrong with a little crew love!” True mocked her. ↗

— K'wan

#lex #pain #reese #true #love

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#even #everything #helps #hide #i

The pain would not leave him. It came to him like the tide that hits the sea. ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#tragic #unrequited-love #love