#pain

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#beings #broader #coherent #comprehensive #flexible

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#instruction #painted #photograph #picture #sun

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#film #movement #painting #very

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#bearing #much #pain #pleasure

No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs. ↗

— Charlie Hunnam

#entertain #i #i do #make #music

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#condition #enlarged #enriches #horizon #human

The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it. ↗

— Alton Brown

#chocolate #find #french #hard #i

I paint as if I were Rothschild. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#paint #were

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#genius #infinite #infinite capacity #pains #taking

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting. ↗