Pain Quotes (1570)

Quotes and citations about pain

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh... view

By: Jim Carrey

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret... view

By: Jim Carrey

Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer... view

By: Billy Carter

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it... view

By: Rosanne Cash

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange... view

By: Nick Cave

Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful... view

By: Dick Cavett

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself... view

By: Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Jests that give pains are no jests... view

By: Miguel De Cervantes

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint... view

By: Aime Cesaire

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public... view

By: Paul Cezanne

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't... view

By: Paul Cezanne

Painting from nature is not copying the object.. view

By: Paul Cezanne

The painter must enclose himself within his work.. view

By: Paul Cezanne

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind.. view

By: Paul Cezanne

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art... view

By: Paul Cezanne

I want to die painting... view

By: Paul Cezanne

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter... view

By: Paul Cezanne

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation... view

By: Paul Cezanne

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations... view

By: Paul Cezanne

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing... view

By: Paul Cezanne

I have sworn to die painting... view

By: Paul Cezanne

I paint as if I were Rothschild... view

By: Paul Cezanne

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting... view

By: Paul Cezanne

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 there's a clash between the two, it's bad art... view

By: Marc Chagall

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more... view

By: Marc Chagall

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death... view

By: Whittaker Chambers

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser... view

By: Whittaker Chambers

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death... view

By: Coco Chanel

I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China... view

By: Jung Chang

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain... view

By: Charlie Chaplin

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!.. view

By: Charlie Chaplin

It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy... view

By: Geraldine Chaplin

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions... view

By: Pierre Charron

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky... view

By: William Merritt Chase

I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever... view

By: Brandi Chastain

Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market... view

By: Ron Chernow

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans... view

By: Michael Chertoff

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods... view

By: Kate Chopin

Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account... view

By: Chris Christie

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest... view

By: Charles Churchill