Pain Quotes - Page 220

If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.

Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it.

Your art is part of the big painting of your life. You are on your own, standing by yourself in the middle of creation. In the beauty of that aloneness, and in how you respond to it, you will find your passion.

In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

They had to ask spain I think, they've had to say to Spain, can you lend us some stuff for the roads, and it's Gordon Brown phoning up going 'pass the salt'

Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most efficient," Said Palmer. " The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move.

Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.

Downsides, yeah, and when there are more downsides when churches first start - they go through stages of transforming to becoming multiracial. So in the beginning stages there's often a lot of pain, a lot of confusion, a lot of people leave.

Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation.

pain always feels brand new no matter how much experience you've had with it!

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

An intrinsic part of the whole delicious, exuberant fun, and joy of painting consists in simply not having to bother about making a mess, either of one's person, or of the surroundings in which one is at work.

The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.

Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It doesn't heal anything. I don't know how or what does the healing, but it isn't Time.

There's a secret to get through loss, pain and grief. If we're alone we can't see who we are. When we join the club, other people become the mirror. Through them, we see ourselves and gain an understanding of what we're going through. Then slowly, real slowly, we learn to accept who we see in the mirror. Then you become the mirror for them; by being honest about who you are, you'll help them learn to love and accept themselves.

Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting.

It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.

My path, my life, my career has really been a journey from moving from, in a sense, darkness to light. From pain to joy through the experience of yoga and meditation. It's an ongoing adventure that's unfolding every day.

We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.

Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. You've already come through some things, which are very painful. If you've been alive until you're 35, you have gone through some pain. It cost you something. And you've come through it. So at least look at that. And have a sense to look at yourself and say, "Well, wait a minute. I'm stronger than I thought I was."