#pain

To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going. ↗

— Jenny Agutter

#bits #boring #come #dies #dry

I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny. ↗

— Jason Alexander

#character #funny #him #i #makes

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#equivalent #evils #existence #god #harmony

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria. ↗

— Mario Batali

#austria #croatia #food #germany #great

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#asks #because #better #catholicity #celebrated

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#blindly #body #cult thing #difficult #difficult thing

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#already #each #enough #hardly #i

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#appeared #constantly #me #only #painting

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#gratitude #ingratitude #most #next #painful

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. ↗

— John Berger

#any #belongs #does #drawing #however