Pain Quotes - Page 135

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

He who speaks from the lips chatters. He who speaks from an empty mind adds confusion to discord. He who speaks from a full mind feeds the minds of men. He who speaks from his heart wins the confidence of mankind. But he who speaks from his soul heals the heartbreaks of a world and feeds the hungry, starving souls of men. He can dry the tears of anguish and pain. He can bring light, for he will carry light.

Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet--pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet and love.

We take drugs because we want to feel a sense of connection, and we seek God for the same reason. The search, no matter where it's directed - divine union or cocaine - begins with pain that comes from believing you're separate from love. The key is using spiritual practice to turn inward, toward awareness, which is what we actually are.

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

I run because I enjoy it — not always, but most of the time. I run because I have always run — not trained, but run. What do I get? Joy and pain. Good health and injuries. Exhilaration and despair. A feeling of accomplishment and a feeling of waste. The sunrise and the sunset.

If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And teach his feet a measure, And find his mouth a rein; If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain.

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape.

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.

Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.

one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. That is why the spectacle of tragedy has always filled men, not with despair, but with a sense of hope and exaltation.

Live to paint, don't paint to live.

Why Family Therapy...because it deals with family pain.

Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.

At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.