#pain

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. ↗

— Joan Didion

#down #every #go #like #novels

I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain. ↗

— Casper Van Dien

#dug #enjoy #i #less #love

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #being alone #created #express #glory

I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms. ↗

— Margaret Stohl

#loss #love #pain #beauty

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends. ↗

— Tom Waits

#friends #pain #real #real friends #real pain

I’ve seen knives pierce the chest, Children dying in the road Crawling things hooked and baited, Rapists bound and then castrated, Villains singed in public square. Yet none these sights did make me cringe Like when my Love cut all her hair. ↗

— Roman Payne

#beauty #cutting-hair #destruction #hair #haircut

I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries. ↗

— Richard Donner

#commercials #documentaries #doing #drive #driving

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#being #book #creation #give #human

Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire. ↗

— John Dyer

#enjoy #enjoyed #freedom #fun #good

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside. ↗

— John Dyer

#fine #i #life #majority #may