Pain Quotes - Page 90

Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.

Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.

The opposite of addiction is human connection. And I think that has massive implications for the war on drugs. The treatment of drug addicts almost everywhere in the world is much closer to Tent City than it is to anything in Portugal. Our laws are built around the belief that drug addicts need to be punished to stop them. But if pain and trauma and isolation cause addiction, then inflicting more pain and trauma and isolation is not going to solve that addiction. It's actually going to deepen it.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes a sign for a woman or a bird as I work... The first stage is free, unconscious... the second stage is carefully calculated.

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.

I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

Nobody gets to name you. You are not forgettable. You are not replaceable. You are not your pain. You are sacred and special and alive.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set. As Lassiter crouched beside the Brother’s pretzel of a body, he was feeling a little nauseous himself, and he took a moment to cup what hung between his legs—just to reassure the boys downstairs that however much of an iconoclast he was, some things were sacred.

I'm not a conscious rapper, all those things we talk about, the struggle, the pain, the outlook to the future, keep your head up. I try to put all those positive things into a regular human character, which is myself.

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain of life. It is unsentimental, it takes us seriously as human beings, it is not condescending. Paradoxically, by seeing pain we are made greater, it becomes a need.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up.

I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language, the words of which consist of all visible objects. An object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting.

The pain of being in a bad relationship is confusing. When it's over - it's over. No more confusion!

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.