An Art Work A Day

Today's painting does not reflect my feelings these days. I am quite happy with my work as a teacher as well as my paintings lately. On the other hand we have all met "the angry man" sometimes. My daughter, aged 20, found him scary and that made me very happy because I want the viewers to react to the emotions I try to portrait in my semiabstract figure paintings.

This painting, as well as most of this months paintings, is made using scrunched up paper and similar to get the roughness in the expression that I want. I do not want them to be within the lines drawings. I want them to have some of the expressioness of cartoons but not the neat lines. I have called them part of my Made Just For Fun - series.

I hope to find some time soon to study cartoons a bit more again because there is so much interesting going on within modern illustrations and cartooning.

Even though I painted this while playing with paint, anger is a very scare thing which I do take very seriously.




Made Just For Fun - Thinking Angry Thoughts
acrylics on paper
27x35cm

I plan to display this at the Holidays exhibition after having it properly mounted and framed so if you are interested in purchase please email me and we'll take it from there.



Famous quotes about anger found different places online


“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves”
Abraham J. Heschel quotes
(Jewish theologian and philosopher, 1907-1972)

Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way... that is not easy.
-- Aristotle.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
-- Chinese Proverb.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.-- Seneca.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
-- Seneca.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
-- Will Rogers.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
-- Ambrose Bierce.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
-- Marcus Antonius.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.
-- Lyman Abbott.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
-- Marcus Aurelius.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
-- Thomas Fuller.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
-- St. Francis De Sales.

Anger is what makes a clear mind seem clouded.
-- Kazi Shams.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
-- George Jean Nathan.

Leo Buscaglia
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Booker T. Washington
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Helen Douglas
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

HW Longfellow
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility.

Marcus Aurelius
How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

John Dryden
Beware of the fury of the patient man.

Unknown
Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to inpart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

Lord Halifax
Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.

Unknown
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Chuck Norris
Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Tryon Edwards
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

Marcus Antonius
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Cato
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.

W. R. Alger
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

Golda Meir
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

St. Francis De Sales
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Chinese Proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Shakespeare
Men in rage strike those that wish them best.

Elizabeth Kenny
He who angers you conquers you.

Greek
Those who the Gods would destroyFirst they would make angry

Haliburton
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.


John Steinbeck
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

Willard Gaylin
Expressing anger is a form of public littering.

John Dryden
Beware the fury of a patient man.

Henry Beecher
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Lawrence J. Peter
Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Tamil proverb
Great anger is more destructive than the sword.

Pythagoras
Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.

Pasquier Quesnel
Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.

Charles De Gaulle
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Alfred Montapert
Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

Daniel Webster
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Thomas Haliburton
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

Thomas Fuller
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Clarendon
Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man; it effects nothing it goes about; and hurts the man who is possessed by it more than any other against whom it is directed.

Jefferson
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

Elizabeth 1
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Thomas a Kempis
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

James Thurber
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Aristotle (384-322 BC) - Greek philosopher
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not easy.

Proverbs 14:17a
He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly...

Daniel Webster
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.Benjamin

Franklin
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Seneca
He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule.Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself.Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.

Dr. Robert Anthony
The angry people are those people who are most afraid.

Tyron Edwards
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

Thomas Fuller
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that lacks it has a maimed mind.HoraceAnger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.Walter S. LandorThe flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

George Jean Nathan
No man can think clearly when his fist are clenched.

William Shenstone
Think when you are enraged at anyone, what would probably become of your sentiments should he die during the dispute.AristotleAnybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy.

Elizabeth Kenny
My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint.

Eric Hoffer'
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

Frederick Buechner
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

James Thurber
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thomas a Kempis
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

William Blake
I was angry with my friendI told my wrath, my wrath did end.I was angry with my foe:I told it not, my wrath did grow.A Poison Tree


"It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured."
Tacitus

"Anger as soon as fed is dead. 'Tis starving makes it fat."
Emily Dickinson

"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at."
Frank Moore Colby

"Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours."
Frank Moore Colby

"Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one."
George Savile

"Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around you in awareness."
Ross Hersey

"A man is measured by the size of things that anger him."
Geof Greenleaf

"Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten."
Siddhartha Buddha

"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get."
Bertrand Russell

"I conquered my hostility by putting it away until the day I might need it."
Nachman of Bratslav

"An angry man is unfit to pray."
Nachman of Bratslav

"In time we hate that which we often fear."
William Shakespeare

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."
Thomas Paine