#pain

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#book #brooks #century #early #i

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. ↗

— Marc Chagall

#art #authentic #bad #beside #between

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#child #children #cross #each #earth

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#dint #extended #frequently #only #painful

The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse. ↗

— James Chanos

#back #bad #child #china #companies

It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy. ↗

— Geraldine Chaplin

#change #crazy #drives #hear #i

A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal. ↗

— Will Ferrell

#brain #certain #childhood #comedy #events

I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#heal #hunger #i #i think #like

But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful. ↗

— Bryan Ferry

#i #much #now #painful #too

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that. ↗

— Bryan Ferry

#art #career #completely #connected #extent