#pain

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#basketball #football #football player #i #inflict

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. ↗

— Henry Miller

#chop #even #give #him #his

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly. ↗

— Rebecca Miller

#because #become #every #film-making #funny

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

#great #life #painter #surrealism #then

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest. ↗

— Charles Churchill

#daily #digest #fit #know #little

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#painful #punishment #religion #soothing

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition. ↗

— Claude Monet

#before #carries #composition #head #his

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ↗

— Claude Monet

#become #flowers #having #i #owe

The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours. ↗

— James Mooney

#after #afternoon #always #begins #commonly

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. ↗

— Alan Moore

#childish #comic #comic books #films #illiterate