#sensation

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#nature #paint #realize #sensations #subject

Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#develop #exist #existing #expressing #football

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us. ↗

— Angela Carter

#art #become #direct #enslave #evolved

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#being #cease #death #delightful #drowning

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#compassion #fear #grief #hand #others

I'm pretty sure I'm going to fall in my GaGa shoes one night on tour and I'm hoping it becomes a Youtube sensation. ↗

— Chris Colfer

#fall #gaga #going #hoping #i

I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#big #big deal #deal #feeling #i

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere. ↗

— Philip Guston

#anywhere #come #desire #directly #even

People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#anywhere #could #go #near #people

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world. ↗

— Ruth Hubbard

#cannot #categorize #evolve #our #place