Pain Quotes
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God - Made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art.Marc Chagall
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 and say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.Martin Luther King Jr.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.Kahlil Gibran
Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint - By - Numbers is to art.Robin Tyle
You are looking as fresh as paint.F. E. Smedley
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.Mary Cholmondeley
Nay, tempt me not to love again There was a time when love was sweet Dear Nea had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet But oh this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one Would I endure such pangs again.Sir Thomas More
To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.Kelvin Throop
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.C. S. Lewis
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.George Tooke
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.Sri da Avabhas
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.Isaac Bashevis Singe
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.William Shakespeare
I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it.Miguel de Cervantes
They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.Miguel de Cervantes
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.Buddha
The trouble with born - Again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.Herb Caen
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.Marquis de Sade
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon - - And with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body.Mildred & Victor Goertzel
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
I remember how my Great Uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out of a larger toy boat I had. It was almost as good as the first one, except now it had bumpy whittle marks all over it. And no paint, because he had whittled off the paint.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.Charles Caleb Colton
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.Maurice Masterlinck
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech
Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever.Lance Armstrong
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
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.
Millions must plough and forge and dig in order that a few thousand may write and paint and study.Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke
My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
The pain passes. The beauty remains.Auguste Renoi
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.Unknown
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.G. K. Chesterton
