Pastoral Resources

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving.

A doctor is fascinated by death, and pain. And how much pain a man can endure.

He preacheth patience that never knew pain.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.