#pain

It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there's no way to deal with the grief and pain. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#finality #grief #love #pain #death

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. ↗

— Mark Akenside

#fantastic #imaginary #joys #painted #pursues

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible. ↗

— Josef Albers

#me #painter #safe #see #teacher

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting. ↗

— Josef Albers

#curious #heart #just #optical #painting

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things. ↗

— Leon Battista Alberti

#beautiful #beautiful things #choose #most #most beautiful

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#i #paint #write

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

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#i #lot #make #me #money