I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?
~By Liz Phair ~
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
~By Jackson Pollock ~
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.
~By Helen Frankenthaler ~
I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.
~By Neil Sheehan ~
Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.
~By Rudolph Valentino ~
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
~By Joseph Addison ~
I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.
~By Todd Solondz ~
Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.
~By LeAnn Rimes ~
However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.
~By Richard Attenborough ~
What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?
~By Marquis De Custine ~
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 ~
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
~By Michelangelo ~
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
~By William J. Brennan ~
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.
~By John Armstrong ~
The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.
~By Maxfield Parrish ~
If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.
~By Grandma Moses ~
I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.
~By Johan Cruijff ~
Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
~By Jean-Michel Basquiat ~
I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.
~By Brandi Chastain ~
It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.
~By Tim Bishop ~
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
~By Alberto Giacometti ~
Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.
~By David Brainerd ~
Paint the essential character of things.
~By Camille Pissarro ~
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
~By Salvador Dali ~
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~By Anais Nin ~
It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.
~By Buenaventura Durruti ~
You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.
~By Janet Jackson ~
It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting.
~By Frank Langella ~
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
~By Dan Fogelberg ~
I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
~By Dennis Rodman ~
I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment.
~By Peter Steele ~
Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.
~By Max Beckmann ~
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 ~
The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.
~By Jurgen Habermas ~
How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.
~By Burl Ives ~
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
~By Tony Robbins ~
How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
~By Alfred de Musset ~
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.
~By Reynolds Price ~
I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.
~By Robert Rauschenberg ~
The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.
~By Sylvia Browne ~
My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.
~By Diana Ross ~
Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.
~By Thomas Couture ~
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
~By Jackson Pollock ~
But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.
~By Tony Curtis ~
The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours.
~By James Mooney ~
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 ~
They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.
~By David Rockefeller ~
Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.
~By William Scott ~
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 ~
You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
~By Gloria Naylor ~
As anyone who has been close to someone that has committed suicide knows, there is no other pain like that felt after the incident.
~By Peter Greene ~
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
~By Georges Seurat ~
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
~By Ayn Rand ~
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
~By Keith Haring ~
Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.
~By David Hockney ~
My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.
~By David Hasselhoff ~
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.
~By Frank Auerbach ~
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.
~By Kazimir Malevich ~
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 ~
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.
~By Dianne Wiest ~
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
~By Frida Kahlo ~
People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.
~By Lee Krasner ~
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
~By Diane Wakoski ~
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
~By Pablo Picasso ~
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
~By Saint Augustine ~
Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.
~By Link Wray ~
I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.
~By William Wiley ~
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
~By Pierre Bonnard ~
I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.
~By Geoffrey Holder ~
The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
~By Tea Leoni ~
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.
~By Joyce Carol Oates ~
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
~By Edward Koch ~
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
~By Jim Morrison ~
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
~By Yevgeny Yevtushenko ~
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
~By Alcaeus ~
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
~By Andre Malraux ~
The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.
~By Reggie Jackson ~
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
~By John Patrick ~
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
~By Horace ~
When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.
~By Frank Stella ~
I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.
~By William Wiley ~
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
~By Frida Kahlo ~
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
~By Emily Dickinson ~
I found I have to stay painting.
~By Alan Bean ~
I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
~By Norman McLaren ~
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
~By Sophocles ~
The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.
~By Pamela Stephenson ~
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