T Quotes
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“The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.”
“The painful truth about life is not death but death while you are alive.”
“The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.”
“The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, Explanatory Foot-notes, Critical Notes, and a Glossarial Index
“The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation”
Source: Autobiography
“The pains in my heart don't go away these days. The heartaches are chronic; they layer on top of each other from one day to the next, thickening like a callus.”
Source: The Memory Box
“The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.”
Source: Blkberry Winter
“The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.”
Source: The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright
“The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.”
“The pains that you suffer, the loneliness that you encounter, the experiences that are disappointing or distressing, the addictions and seeming pitfalls of your life are each doorways to awareness. Each offers you an opportunity to see beyond the illusion that serves as the balancing and growth of your soul.”
“The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most most of all.”
Source: Oedipus the King
“The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush. It was only after painting them that I sometimes felt that the grey was not yet satisfactory and that another layer of paint was needed.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007
“The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line drawn through it will go through half a dozen states, from the furry bloom of crusted charcoal to a blind furrow, cutting a channel in to soft paint below.”
“The paint is drying, and time is dying. The pain is crying, lying on my back, trying to get back the time, to brushstrokes too fast, wet went dry and love went dull; now I live in a portrait I never painted.”
“The paint on the two-story brick building blistered in the heat like sunburnt skin.””
Source: Catch .22
“The painted aircraft took on sunlight and pulse. Sweeps of color, bands and spatters, airy washes, the force of saturated light—the whole thing oddly personal, a sense of one painter’s hand moved by impulse and afterthought as much as by epic design. I hadn’t expected to register such pleasure and sensation. The air was color-scrubbed, coppers and ochers burning off the metal skin of the aircraft to exchange with the framing desert.”
“The painted picture was a bit rough, which was probably done on purpose, yet seemed eerily real as if there actually was a way to step through it into the wild jungle”
Source: Spidersilk
“The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.”
“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”
Source: On photography
“The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in color and line as simply and as powerfully as possible and so translates his impression into an aesthetic emotion.”
“The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.”
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
“The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.”
Source: The Problems of Philosophy
“The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.”
“The painter is not simply someone who looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal vision by rendering it visible. The painter shows or allows the seeing of "something" that without him, without his intervention, would not be seen. He manifests through his work a possibility of seeing that would otherwise remain latent. In other words, painting is an art that reveals or unveils the world from an angle that the world itself does not present to us. Painting creates. It does not limit itself to imitation or reproduction. Any desire to confine painting within the limits of déjà vu would be a gross misunderstanding of the essence of what painting is. Painting allows us to see that which without it would never be seen.”
Source: Botero: Philosophy of the creative act
“The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.”
“The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.”
“The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.”
“The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.”
“The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.”
“The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.”
“The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.”
“The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.”
Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre
“The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.”
“The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination.”
“The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and to counteract his great design of speaking to the heart.”
Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy
“The painter of the future will be a colorist unlike anything yet.”
“The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.”
“The painter paints his brushes black, Through the canvas runs a crack, Portrait of the pain never answers back...”
“The painter paints to catch the eye. The writer writes to capture the heart. The singer sings to alter the mind.”
Source: These Words Burn Like Fire
“The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens.”
“The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.”
“The painter saw what was, an alternate
Candor and secrecy inside the skin.”
“The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no longer recalls any object, this artificially produced semblance functions only because it is scrutinized for likeness to a familiar - that is, object-related - semblance.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007
“The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.”
“The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.”
Source: Caspar David Friedrich and Romantic Painting
“The painter strives and competes with nature.”
Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:
“The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.”
“The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.”
“The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.”