#pain

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#beings #broader #coherent #comprehensive #flexible

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#instruction #painted #photograph #picture #sun

there won't be any pain, he promised. Only an eternity together. Come back to me. (Stanton, book #5) ↗

— Lynne Ewing

#death

When you want to make the main color pure and bright, don't just keep adding bright colors on it. Just make the colors around the spot darker and dull. It will give the scene dramatical effects. I think the life is the same. ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

#artist #color #life #painting #art

He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands. ↗

— John Fowles

#artists #creativity #painting #skill #art

ach! wüßtet ihr wie schwer es ist, wenn man gehängt ist und nicht sterben kann!! ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#gehängt #pain #sehnsucht #sterben #death

I respect the hell out of her for how hard she’s working to be okay. I just wish she’d let me show her how to let go, how to let herself hurt. I want to take her pain. ↗

— Jasinda Wilder

#falling #falling-into-you #grief #hurt #jasinda-wilder

The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly... I even do not know if I am seeing them with my eye or with my mind. I just need to copy them on my canvases. But this mental process is always overwhelming. I often have hard time to deal with my emotion on this state. You could call this depression on surface? But actually, so many 're-birth' and 'reform' are going on on my thoughts, inspiration, philosophy...etc in the underwater. I believe this struggle make my art real. My art always comes from my emotion. ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

#artist #emotion #eye #inspiration #painting

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. ↗

— James Baldwin

#empathy #pain #reading #people

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#pain #peace #scar #sweetness #remember