#pain

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ↗

— Claude Monet

#am #become #being #flowers #following

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#pain #part #sail #seas #silent

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand. ↗

— Berthe Morisot

#hand #painters #real #their #understand

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#better #better off #chickens #know #off

No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#every #hurt #only #pain #problems

It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint. ↗

— Martin Mull

#day #gives #job #me #more

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#does #forms #frieze #i #life

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#details #did #emptiness #eye #followed

I love to draw—pencil, ink pen—I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England—you know those huge paintings?—I’m just amazed. You don’t think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#art #artist #painter #painting #art

Alma is in a painting phase, and the people she paints are all the color of mold, look like they've just been dredged from the bottom of a lake. Her last painting was of you, slouching against the front door: only your frowning I-had-a-lousy-Third-World-childhood-and-all-I-got-was-this-attitude eyes recognizable. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#painting #third-world-childhood #attitude