#pain

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#inadequacy-of-words #painting #power-of-words #self-expression #art

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul. ↗

— Wassily Kandinsky

#art #paintings #science #art

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#explain #how #just #learn #never

If I could capture the rays of the sun in a can, I'd paint a canvas with it and have you look at my work until the memory of my work was burned in your mind and your retinas burned out.
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— Jarod Kintz

#memory #paint #sun #art

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#expressionism #max-beckman #painter #art

This is a familiar syndrome. There is a stage with every drawing or painting when it looks banal and clumsy. It's worth pushing through that, working through the cliché to find out what made it a cliché in the first place. ↗

— Antony Sher

#cliché #drawing #painting #art

The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like, or what Mary looked like, nor the child, Jesus. But, the orthodox painter feels, Jesus of Nazareth did not walk around Galilee faceless. The icon of Jesus may not look like the man Jesus two thousand years ago, but it represents some *quality* of Jesus, or his mother, or his followers, and so becomes an open window through which we can be given a new glimpse of the love of God. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#art #iconography #icons #jesus #love

The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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All great art is praise. ↗

— John Ruskin

#painting #philosophy #art

I think what hurts the most is that I just really want to belong. I want to stand inside the circle of other people and be noticed for the right things, but it seems like the wrong things are always bigger. And all the advie I've ever read --smile more, be yourself, dream big, stay positive--seems to have some darker side that's never mentioned. ↗

— Jane Devin

#belonging #hurt #pain #attitude