#pain

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#beautiful #beautiful women #because #how #look

I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment. ↗

— Peter Steele

#agree #cry #deal #disappointment #feel

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement. ↗

— Ben Stein

#done #effort #everything #first #first step

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#ears #eyes #his #paint #painter

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#daily #does #miracle #paint #pleasant

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#find #many #pains #rain

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. ↗

— Frank Stella

#aim #art #compromised #create #decoration

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere. ↗

— Frank Stella

#just #out #painting #sculpture #somewhere

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall. ↗

— Frank Stella

#against #become #best #gestures #had

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out. ↗

— Frank Stella

#any #get #i #laying #like