Pain Quotes
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.Pablo Picasso
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.George Tooke
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.A. Whitney Griswold
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played 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.
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.David Bailey
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.Anais Nin
I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.Christopher S. Drew
The superiority of chocolate hot chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain...Thomas Jefferson
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 1
Where there is love, there is pain.Danish prove
They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.Miguel de Cervantes
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.Mrs. Stowe
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.Danny Kaye
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.Swami Brahnmananda
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.Samuel Johnson
Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.Jerry Flint, in Forbes
Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware.Mel Colgrove
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.Ted W. Engstrom
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.Edmond de Goncourt
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.Blaise Pascal
Time cancels young pain.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Do not consider painful what is good for you.Euripides
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
It is as natural to die as to be born and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.Francis Bacon
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.David Bailey
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.Albert Einstein
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.Sri da Avabhas
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.Jean Jacques Rousseau
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.Sophocles
