#pain

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#following #madness #may #me #morning

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#arises #behave #brought #certain #certain way

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#around #bonds #burst #caught #eager

Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable. ↗

— Somaly Mam

#inspirational #learning #pain #experience

You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings! ↗

— Randy Bachman

#brick #browns #cave #color #ended

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel. ↗

— P.D. James

#experience #feel #pain #experience

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#empire #give #happy #make #pain

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school. ↗

— David Bailey

#could #draw #ever #exam #got

Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily. ↗