#pain

The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#attempted #centre #character #fascism #fight

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#human #human nature #idea #nature #new

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing. ↗

— Russell Banks

#been #draw #i #life #my life

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century. ↗

— Balthus

#century #craft #disappeared #evidence #hardly

But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#considered #heartthrob #i #kind #myself

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#doing #good #good things #knows #longer

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean? ↗

— Liz Phair

#between #comfortable #edge #good #good art

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. ↗