#pain

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

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

I like to paint nudes mostly. ↗

— Cleo Moore

#like #mostly #nudes #paint

In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you. ↗

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

#approach #ask #could #countries #everyone

Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out. ↗

— Ken Norton

#break #getting #had #half #hard

I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them. Her warm memories. I'd like to paint them over the bare plaster walls of my soul, but everything I paint seems to peel. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#painting

Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else. ↗

— David Levien

#hopelessness #luck #pain #luck