#pain

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin. ↗

— Mary Astell

#commit #endure #greater #greatest #grief

Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#four #never #paintings #you

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#artists #experience #kind #literally #lot

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#hasty #human #human nature #leap #most

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. ↗

— David Bailey

#before #everything #extraordinary #good #imagination

I did painting before I did photography. ↗

— David Bailey

#did #i #painting #photography

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#cling #deal #forced #gone #hate

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. ↗

— Balthus

#anguish #endless #great #painting #pleasure

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. ↗

— Balthus

#attempt #best #better #even #find

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. ↗

— Balthus

#emotions #order #painting #passage #possible