#pain

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#pain #solve #storytelling #use #way

I paint with shapes. ↗

— Alexander Calder

#i #paint #shapes

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country. ↗

— Morton Feldman

#compliments #country #dollars #ever #few

I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again. ↗

— Jane Campion

#again #being #better #did #economic

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. ↗

— Truman Capote

#does #fine #just #knowing #laws

No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#disenchanted #i #just #like #paint

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#better #communicate #effort #even #lazy

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? ↗

— Leslie Caron

#great #happy #how #know #order

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul. ↗

— Emily Carr

#be careful #careful #know #own #paint

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange. ↗

— Nick Cave

#art #beautiful #compliment #exchange #greatest