Pain Quotes (1570)

Quotes and citations about pain

Pain is never permanent... view

By: Saint Teresa of Avila

You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!.. view

By: Randy Bachman

In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy!.. view

By: John Badham

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea... view

By: Walter Bagehot

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it... view

By: Walter Bagehot

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.. view

By: David Bailey

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead... view

By: David Bailey

Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily... view

By: Anita Baker

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons... view

By: Ralph Bakshi

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat... view

By: Ralph Bakshi

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain... view

By: James A. Baldwin

I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that... view

By: Christian Bale

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century... view

By: Balthus

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings... view

By: Balthus

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle... view

By: Balthus

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible... view

By: Balthus

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish... view

By: Balthus

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really... view

By: Balthus

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings... view

By: Balthus

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye... view

By: Honore de Balzac

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing... view

By: Russell Banks

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win... view

By: Roger Bannister

You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don't keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy... view

By: Roger Bannister

I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy... view

By: Roger Bannister

I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole... view

By: Robert Barany

I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan... view

By: Javier Bardem

Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it... view

By: Javier Bardem

I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost... view

By: Javier Bardem

You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really... view

By: Ellen Barkin

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty... view

By: Djuna Barnes

You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in... view

By: Majel Barrett

You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre... view

By: Majel Barrett

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer... view

By: Lynda Barry

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths... view

By: Drew Barrymore

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... view

By: Ethel Barrymore

The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors... view

By: Cecilia Bartoli

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens... view

By: Georg Baselitz

I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting... view

By: Georg Baselitz

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... view

By: Georg Baselitz

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation... view

By: Georg Baselitz