#pain

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#busy #career #desperately #eat #forget

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#circumstance #i #myself #painter #thought

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#joy #paint #sing #sorrow

I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#career #eat #forget #i #irresponsible

The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#gave #life #man #me #most

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#composition #elements #essential #essential elements #father

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children. ↗

— Maria Monk

#attempt #children #convent #far #i

The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong. ↗

— James Monroe

#alike #among #attack #ceases #defense

The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination. ↗

— James Monroe

#any #between #civil #civil war #continues

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#arts #because #becomes #images #into