I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.
~By LaToya Jackson ~
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
~By Tertullian ~
Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.
~By Spider Robinson ~
Finally I had a place where I could express my pain and I felt safe because I didn't have to put my name on it. I think acting kept me alive back then.
~By Lindsay Wagner ~
I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.
~By Fernando Alonso ~
I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.
~By George Woodcock ~
In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
~By Viggo Mortensen ~
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.
~By Steve Guttenberg ~
It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
~By Ethel Barrymore ~
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
~By Jim Rohn ~
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
~By Mary Tyler Moore ~
I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.
~By Faith Ringgold ~
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
~By Pierre Auguste Renoir ~
I love painting.
~By Heidi Klum ~
Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.
~By John Guare ~
My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.
~By Elizabeth Garrett Anderson ~
The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.
~By Kit Williams ~
I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.
~By Jonathan Davis ~
When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'
~By Mitch Daniels ~
I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.
~By David Cross ~
I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
~By Howard Hodgkin ~
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
~By Francis Picabia ~
What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
~By Raoul Dufy ~
I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.
~By Lionel Richie ~
When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.
~By Arne Jacobsen ~
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
~By Edvard Munch ~
I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.
~By Sarah Brightman ~
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.
~By Patricia Hewitt ~
As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.
~By Lucian Freud ~
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
~By Winston Churchill ~
There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
~By Rachel Field ~
To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
~By George Crabbe ~
This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.
~By Mark Rothko ~
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
~By Annie Dillard ~
We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.
~By Michael Shermer ~
Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.
~By Ralph Allen ~
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.
~By William Trevor ~
In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?
~By Philip Guston ~
Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.
~By Keith Miller ~
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
~By Tom Waits ~
Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.
~By John Dyer ~
Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
~By John Dos Passos ~
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
~By Ad Reinhardt ~
I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.
~By John Dyer ~
My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.
~By Jim Carrey ~
Our stories are different; our pain is the same.
~By Betty Buckley ~
It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
~By Lady Bird Johnson ~
I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.
~By Jean-Jacques Annaud ~
The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it.
~By Norman Rockwell ~
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
~By Jackson Pollock ~
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
~By Georgia O'Keeffe ~
No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.
~By Chris Ware ~
A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.
~By Marion Zimmer Bradley ~
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
~By Jimmy Breslin ~
You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings, you know, pending where the show was being held. You did submit work to be accepted. Once you were accepted that was it. You did your own selection of what went in.
~By Lee Krasner ~
An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
~By Ben Shahn ~
I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.
~By Kevin Costner ~
I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
~By Andy Rooney ~
But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.
~By Richard Krajicek ~
As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.
~By Jonathan Coe ~
Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.
~By Dick Cavett ~
I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether my remarks might cause someone pain.
~By John Hall ~
One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.
~By Cleo Moore ~
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
~By Milton Friedman ~
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
~By George Washington ~
Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
~By Martha Gellhorn ~
I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.
~By Peter Wright ~
Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies you have my respect.
~By Lou Diamond Phillips ~
It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
~By Nathalie Sarraute ~
I was taught that pain is bad.
~By Keith Miller ~
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
~By Pat Morita ~
Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done.
~By Lindsey Buckingham ~
Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.
~By Nicolas Roeg ~
I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.
~By Christopher Plummer ~
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
~By Robert Fulghum ~
I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.
~By Peter Wright ~
I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on.
~By Georg Baselitz ~
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
~By Godfrey Harold Hardy ~
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
~By J. M. Roberts ~
A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
~By Bill Dickey ~
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
~By William Blake ~
As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
~By Matthew Prior ~
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
~By R. D. Laing ~
Interested listeners have only to hear the recording to find out if those guys, who go to such pains to undervalue my work, are right. All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record.
~By Bill Dixon ~
When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.
~By Lindsey Buckingham ~
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
~By Henry Miller ~
I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting.
~By Georg Baselitz ~
You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.
~By Gordie Howe ~
Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.
~By Rebecca Miller ~
I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
~By Willem de Kooning ~
Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
~By August Strindberg ~
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