Pain Quotes - Page 205

Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.

I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

When water isn't rippled, it is naturally still. When a mirror isn't clouded, it is clear of itself. So the mind is not to be cleared; get rid of what muddles it, and its clarity will spontaneously appear. Pleasure need not be sought; get rid of what pains you, and pleasure is naturally there.

Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.

Yeah, leading an examined life, I always say, is a pain in the ass. It adds an element of complexity to business that most businessmen don't want to hear about. They just want to call a fabric manufacturer, and say, "Hey, give us 10,000 yards of shirting."

I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars.

Perhaps one feels more pain when parents are there. It's like when you're hungry, you know, it's worse to get a symbol of a cheeseburger than no cheeseburger at all. It doesn't do you any good, you know.

Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.

Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.

I feel stronger, but physically I feel like I'm falling apart. Every day I get a new pain or ache and think, 'Oh, that will be a hip replacement in a couple of years'.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

My workout philosophy is; no pain, no pain

The only thing that's problematic is the constant explaining, the constant need to kind of go, No, I don't want that because of such and such. I feel like I'm a pain in the ass, and I don't like being difficult.

I can paint anything. Leonardo? Of course. But why? You couldn't sell it.

Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.

Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.

Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human.

Wit has as few true judges as painting.

Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.