#pain

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that. ↗

— Bryan Ferry

#art #career #completely #connected #extent

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. ↗

— John Ciardi

#better #better idea #happens #idea #looking

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#nature #object #painting #realizing #sensations

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#nature #paint #realize #sensations #subject

What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions. ↗

— Roger Federer

#been #conditions #i #i think #over

I paint with shapes. ↗

— Alexander Calder

#i #paint #shapes

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country. ↗

— Morton Feldman

#compliments #country #dollars #ever #few

I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again. ↗

— Jane Campion

#again #being #better #did #economic

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. ↗

— Truman Capote

#does #fine #just #knowing #laws

No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#disenchanted #i #just #like #paint