#pain

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

The pain of retirement means loss. ↗

— John Murray

#means #pain #retirement

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture. ↗

— Robert Musil

#cast #existence #good #optical #our

I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing. ↗

— Dave Mustaine

#because #being #coming #ending #going

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#believe #careful #clinton #companion #connection

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#been #finished #framed #into #like

I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

#because #i #just #lose #painful

That's painful always to lose. ↗

— Rafael Nadal

#lose #painful

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