#pain

For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain. ↗

— Saul Kripke

#pain #sensation

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. ↗

— Frank Leahy

#egotism #pain #stupidity

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? ↗

— Bernard Levin

#contemplate #dog #equipped #happened #only

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility. ↗

— Jack Levine

#now #painting #recollected #something #tranquility

Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#covers #dementia #everything #pain #wonderful

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#build #complete #could #everything #further

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#first-rate #more #painting #second-rate #soup

And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing. ↗

— Ricardo Montalban

#again #blessing #christopher #christopher reeve #courageous

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#exhausted #extracts #forgotten #give #greater

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. ↗

— Alice Duer Miller

#criticize #doing #friends #hold #painful