Pain Quotes
Never invest in anything that eats or needs repainting.Billy Rose
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes.Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.Cicero
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.Edmond de Goncourt
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The pain passes. The beauty remains.Auguste Renoi
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.Unknown
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
For no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.Robert Louis Stevenson
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.Mao Zedong
What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow - Cheeked harlot we have got hold of.Lord Byron, Letter to Thomas Moore
He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.Hunter S. Thompson
If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.Auguste Renoi
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.Pablo Picasso
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half - Baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.Walter Bagehot
It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
Millions must plough and forge and dig in order that a few thousand may write and paint and study.Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.Gertrude Stein
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.Paul Johannes Tillich
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.William Penn
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.James Arthur Baldwin
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.Truman Capote
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.Jean Jacques Rousseau
You know how to paint a room real fast Just put paint rollers on your feet and somehow figure out how to skate up the walls and across the ceiling.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.John Patrick
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.Aeschylus
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.Vincent Van Gogh
Pain is a very precious gift. Do not waste it.Martha Singleterry
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.Roger Banniste
Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.William Baziotes
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
