“The painter paints his brushes black, Through the canvas runs a crack, Portrait of the pain never answers back...” RunningPainAnswersPaintPainterCanvasBrushes Author:Phil Ochs
“There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I could never see these qualities in paint - I could see them in life and art that illustrates life. But I could not see such conflicts in the materials and I knew that it had to be in the attitude of the painter.” ArtWholePainLanguageAttitudeQualityStruggleMaterialsConflictFunctionPaintPainter Author:Robert Rauschenberg
“But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist.” DoeWholeEarthPainPoetScientistPainterLoadPsychiatristSeersAmbulance Author:J. D. Salinger