Pain Quotes - Page 213

Potential unexpressed turns to pain.

Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of "experiments" banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain.

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway

Basically painting is total idiocy.

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer.

Every picture one paints involves not painting others.

Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.

One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their own paintings. They chose it even over photographs because they knew the photographic medium would distort their work.

The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others.

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.

Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.

A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.

There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.

When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise

Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.

Nature engenders the science of painting

There is a pleasure that is born of pain.

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.