#pain

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#between #build #confuses #distracts #i

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#death #light #must #painter #rays

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#art #bourgeois #came #civil #civil wars

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#find #good #his #i #likeness

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#believe #careful #clinton #companion #connection

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#been #finished #framed #into #like

I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

#because #i #just #lose #painful

That's painful always to lose. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

#lose #painful

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#broad #definition #far #i #like

Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#every #every time #experience #i #like