#pain

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#feel #i #interiors #knitting #living

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#between #build #confuses #distracts #i

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#death #light #must #painter #rays

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#art #bourgeois #came #civil #civil wars

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#find #good #his #i #likeness

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#broad #definition #far #i #like

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain. ↗

— Holly Near

#blessing #extraordinary #kind #pain #real

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within. ↗

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#create #creation #despair #difficult #glory

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves. ↗

— Barnett Newman

#leave #paintings #prefer #speak #themselves

The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it. ↗

— James Newman

#about #after #away #being #far