Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Sheen

Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common humanity. And we are so made as to feel something for people who are in pain. It's not possible to be human and to be unaffected by what you see in the third world.

John Updike

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

John Stuart Mill

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

Nick Cave

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

Philip Guston

I'm not interested in painting; I'm not interested in making a picture. Then what the hell am I interested in? I must be interested in this process.

Philip Guston

What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom' where only certain things can happen, unaccountably the unknown and free must appear.

Myrtle Reed

The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

Mike McGavick

Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances.

Marianne Williamson

Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.

Mark Rothko

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

Mac Miller

I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.

Lorna Luft

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

Michael Sandel

Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering pleasure and pain. It´s about declaring what is just and what is unjust, and distinguishing right from wrong. We don´t grasp these things silently, and then put words to them; language is the medium through which we discern and deliberate about the good.

Alexandre Dumas

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.

Albert Schweitzer

The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical pain and bodily anguish mean, belong together all the world over; they are united by a secret bond.

Right now it's just precautionary. I want to be pain-free and ready to go all out when the season starts.

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

I wish I could paint like that again, but I don't want to go there again.

Jim Henson

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

James Caan

I'm here instead of having shoulder surgery. But I'm not sure which is more painful.

Jacqueline Carey

I wondered if he could ever understand that it was a blessing, not a sin, to be graced with more than one love. It could be complicated; of course it could be complicated. And it opened one up to the possibility of more pain and loss. Still, it was a blessing I would never relinquish. Love, genuine love, was always a cause for joy.

Gary Zukav

Clarity is the perception of wisdom and the ability to see the soul in action in the physical world. It turns pain into suffering and evaporates fear. Clarity allows you to see the world of physical matter for what it is, a learning experience that is created jointly by the intentions of the souls that share it.

Evgeni Plushenko

What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I am not a machine, I have a heart beating in my chest -not an engine, there's blood in my veins- not oil. I know pain and fatigue. I can lose but I will strive to win everything.

Ernst Haas

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

Ernest Hemingway

There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.

Evita Peron

I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and the strange thing is that the existence of the poor did not cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there were people who were rich.

Evel Knievel

Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars

Euripides

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

Francis Bacon

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

Francis Bacon

If you can talk about it, why paint it?

Francis Bacon

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees...

Francis Bacon

We only have our nervous system to paint.