Pain Quotes
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.
A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.Paul Valery
Pain is a very precious gift. Do not waste it.Martha Singleterry
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.Walter Bagehot
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.Ted W. Engstrom
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.John Patrick
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
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.Pablo Picasso
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.Anna Mary Robertson Moses
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
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.Bellamy Brooks
A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.Timothy Leary
Where there is love, there is pain.Danish prove
If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.George Bernard Shaw
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.William Shakespeare
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.Thomas Jefferson
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul.John Keats
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
Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.James Thomson
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.George Bernard Shaw
I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.Samuel Johnson
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, Lacon, 1825
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.Ulysses
My mother - In - Law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.Phyllis Dille
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
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.George Bernard Shaw
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.Truman Capote
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.Miguel de Cervantes
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love.Sophocles
Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.Greek
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
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
