#pain

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. ↗

— Arthur Rubinstein

#alive #change #color #houses #i

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise. ↗

— George William Russell

#between #hell #how #lies #pain

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#i #painting #playing #started #teenager

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. ↗

— John Singer Sargent

#every time #friend #i #lose #paint

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty #colours #oscar-wilde #painting #the-picture-of-dorian-gray

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture. ↗

— Steven Saylor

#big picture #canvas #details #distance #gazing

A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape. ↗

— Paul Scofield

#means #much #painting #pearls #string

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings? ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#attention #been #just #marketing #much

For some reason, Hollywood seems to have painted me as a gorgeous vixen at times or the sweet girl. ↗

— Nicollette Sheridan

#gorgeous #hollywood #me #painted #reason

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor. ↗

— Neil Simon

#floor #painted #risks #sistine #took