#pain

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. ↗

— Agnes Martin

#forever #known #mind #paintings #seen

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on. ↗

— Chris Martin

#agree #although #most #negatively #ones

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. ↗

— Karl Marx

#mental #only #pain #physical #physical pain

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#himself #make #music #musician #must

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain. ↗

— John Masefield

#coming #like #old #slow #solemn

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites. ↗

— Diana Ross

#difficult #felt #greater #happiness #i

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#between #difference #i #only #paint

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#i #i do #literally #me #paint

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#else #everybody #everybody else #i #i do

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#before #creative #difficult #ever #first