Pain Quotes (1570)
Quotes and citations about pain
Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud... view
By: Maurice Blanchot
I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving... view
By: Nellie Bly
Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it... view
By: Steven Bochco
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind... view
By: Maxwell Bodenheim
A doctor is fascinated by death, and pain. And how much pain a man can endure... view
By: David Boehm
He preacheth patience that never knew pain... view
By: H. G. Bohn
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt... view
By: Erma Bombeck
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour... view
By: Giotto di Bondone
You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself... view
By: Pierre Bonnard
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly... view
By: Pierre Bonnard
A painting that is well composed is half finished... view
By: Pierre Bonnard
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a very tragic way just how vulnerable many areas of the world are to these sorts of actions... view
By: Jo Bonner
I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time... view
By: David Bowie
I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else... view
By: Arthur Boyd
Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to do... view
By: Arthur Boyd
A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement... view
By: Paul D. Boyer
There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is... view
By: Bill Bradley
A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain... view
By: Marion Zimmer Bradley
It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected... view
By: John Bradshaw
Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose... view
By: David Brainerd
Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas... view
By: Georges Braque
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... view
By: William J. Brennan
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks... view
By: Jimmy Breslin
I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain... view
By: Sarah Brightman
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony... view
By: Benjamin Britten
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself... view
By: Harold Brodkey
I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness... view
By: David Bromstad
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men... view
By: Jacob Bronowski
I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind... view
By: Charles Bronson
What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached... view
By: Charles Bronson
An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?.. view
By: Peter Brook
Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on... view
By: Terry Brooks
Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days... view
By: Eric Brown
The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture... view
By: Sherrod Brown
Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to look at the unborn child, and recognize that it is really a young human, who can feel pain and should be treated with care... view
By: Sam Brownback
The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part... view
By: Sylvia Browne
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction... view
By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint... view
By: Frank Bruno
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking... view
By: Jean de la Bruyere
If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear.. view
By: Jean de la Bruyere
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