#pain

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#comes #feeling #formal #great #like

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher. ↗

— David Coverdale

#art #artist #become #could #design

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#great #human #human condition #knitting #knows

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#am #i #i am #like #opera

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#another #because #become #been #career

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#being #children #feelings #having #love

I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as it can be so I can swing my kids around and not worry about aches and pains. ↗

— Matt Damon

#aches #around #becoming #body #far

at first I thought you were just using me" she said "I definitely am." I just wasn't sure for what. "Asshole!" she said, and punched me in the side. And she laughed as my kidney began to hemorrhage. That's the beauty of honesty. Everyones so unused to hearing it they just assume you're kidding, and you get to feel very good and forthcoming without suffering any consequences except for traces of blood in your urine for the next day or two. ↗

— Paul Neilan

#humor #love #pain #sattire #sex

I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#collect #folded #got #guy #him

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear! ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#after #ago #buying #camera #debt