#pain

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#attention #body #calls #criticism #fulfils

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself. ↗

— Mark Twain

#itself #look #only #painted #words

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

#always #because #despised #european #every

Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

#more #movie #music #noise #painful

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#artist #brush #dips #every #his

I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else. ↗

— Arthur Boyd

#better #else #enough #everything #had

To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. Nobody really does. It sort of arrives when it wants to. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#arrives #art #between #comes #difference

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#analysis #appreciation #beauty #course #gave

Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty. ↗

— Lorraine Bracco

#down #empty #everything #going #i

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#english #in the past #language #paintbrush #past