#pain

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation. ↗

— Philip Guston

#gong #inspired #like #look #painting

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined. ↗

— Philip Guston

#am #arbitrary #arrives #destined #falls

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing. ↗

— Philip Guston

#picturing #possessing #rather #than

Painting and writing are solitary arts. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#painting #solitary #writing

Saving was slow and painful. ↗

— William Christopher Handy

#saving #slow

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. ↗

— G. H. Hardy

#his #ideas #like #made #maker

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#avoid #both #come #ear #enter

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings. ↗

— Keith Haring

#colors #eye #fact #guess #i

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#directly #directly proportional #disagreeable #feel #himself

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#evil #good #good and evil #lesser #moral