#pain

Nature engenders the science of painting. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#nature #painting #science

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#material #means #nature #paintings #photography

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful. ↗

— Barry Diller

#made #painful #reality #reasons #too

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. ↗

— Otto Dix

#know #paints #portrait #possible #should

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally. ↗

— Eleanora Duse

#i #made #morally #myself #paint

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#i #i think #life #limited #painting

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#intended #old #paintings #read #sure

But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell. ↗

— Howard Finster

#art #come #criticism #enough #feeling

Oh, honey, of course it hurts! Beauty is pain. But you don't want to look like a troll, do you? ↗

— Libba Bray

#pain #beauty

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

#arts #college #coming #degree #fine