#pain

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out. ↗

— David Hockney

#course #landscape #out #paint #still

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny. ↗

— David Hockney

#chinese #course #deals #i #knew

I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don't fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again. ↗

— Robert Walser

#melancholy #music #pain #death

Through a painting we can see the whole world. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#see #through #whole #world