Quote by Georges Rouault

Painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

Painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night,

Summary

This quote suggests that painting serves as both an escape and an emotional outlet. By immersing oneself in the act of painting, one can temporarily forget the hardships of life. It is a cathartic release, characterized by a mixture of sorrow and laughter. The imagery of a cry in the night represents the emotional intensity, while the strangled laugh conveys the complex emotions that art can capture. Overall, painting allows artists to express themselves and find solace in the process, offering them an avenue to temporarily distance themselves from reality.

Topics

Art

By Georges Rouault

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Work

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

History

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from followi

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

Fear

I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga ret

I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

Imelda Staunton

Religion

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

Charlotte Bunch

America

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

George Bernard Shaw

Crime

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, y

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Planning

For me, London is and always will be home.

For me, London is and always will be home.

Home

The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myse

The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.

Stress

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is sel

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically,

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

Albert Einstein

Art Science Cybernetics

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put y

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

Graduation