#pain

Without pain, there is no call for anger, much less rampaging. ↗

— Adam Levin

#pain #rampage #anger

I’ve perfected the art of the fake smile. It’s not so difficult when you are completely numb. ↗

— Bethany Griffin

#numb #pain #art

You don’t want me to stand against the council. You want a magic wand, so you can walk around smacking people with it until everything’s just the way you like it. But guess what, Faythe? Life doesn’t work like that. Life bites, and the harder you fight it, the more leverage it has to tear your heart right out of your chest. And if you really want to wake this particular sleeping dog, the truth is that if you’d just taken that "damn ring" five years ago, none of this shit would ever have happened! ↗

— Rachel Vincent

#life #marc-ramos #pain #truth #life

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with? ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#pain #perseverance #quitting #life

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#painting #art

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet. ↗

— O. Henry

#arts #bullets #music #paint #painting

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna. ↗

— Wendelin Van Draanen

#art #lighting #truth #art

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy. ↗

— Robert Henri

#painting #art

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing. ↗

— Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn

#atmosphere #painting #art

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#art-theory #creativity #design #emotion #matisse