#pain

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man. ↗

— Patrick White

#again #began #beginning #called #developed

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#fiction #henry #henry james #james #mr

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#abraham lincoln #admiration #audacious #better #both

I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there. ↗

— William Wiley

#also #going #i #i see #just

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to. ↗

— William Wiley

#attracted #been #desire #drawn #i

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain. ↗

— George Will

#among #away #gain #get #inflict

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#cook #destroying #economic #gain #like

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#beauty #cherishing #grace #grief #hurt

I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore. ↗

— Terri Windling

#desert #folklore #i #long #long series

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#being #could #created #empathy #having