#pain

People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence. ↗

— Ralph Allen

#feel #obvious #paintings #people #predominant

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again. ↗

— Tori Amos

#give #give me #life #me #myself

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety. ↗

— Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

#anxious #being #come #death #duty

Why talk when you can paint? ↗

— Milton Avery

#talk #why #you

I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

#always #asked #attacked #feel #i

The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain. ↗

— Tony Benn

#blaming #christ #got #happened #inquisition

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#hurt #into #intoxication #loophole #men

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing? ↗

— Peter Brook

#directing #earth #finding #icon #jesus

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part. ↗

— Sylvia Browne

#learn #more #painful #part #though

I'm here instead of having shoulder surgery. But I'm not sure which is more painful. ↗

— James Caan

#here #i #instead #more #painful