#pain

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around. ↗

— Chuck Close

#around #especially #experience #having #her

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from. ↗

— Chuck Close

#i #paint #photograph #really #somebody

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. ↗

— Ellen Key

#ideal #imagination #limit #need #paints

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#me #more #much #painting #than

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense. ↗

— John Cusack

#age #air #also #america #apocalypse

What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain? ↗

— Marquis De Custine

#complain #more #painful #than #those

I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that painful to wax, but... I don't have time for it - just give me the razor. ↗

— Elisha Cuthbert

#get #give #give me #going #i

It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling. ↗

— Eric Davis

#i #lot #negative #painless #rather

Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection? ↗

— Mother Teresa

#faith #hurt-feelings #joy #love #pain

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it. ↗

— Otto Dix

#create #desire #doing #got #i