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~ The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. ~ ~ The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory. ~ ~ Artthe meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory. ~ ~ Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria. ~ ~ It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one. ~ ~ Drinking, eating, shopping,revenge,,rebound sex,drugs or whatever your poison may be will number the pain - but that's all. ~ ~ If you bury the pain deep down it will stay with you indefinitely, but if you open yourself to it, experience it, and deal with it head-on, you'll find it begins to move on after a while. ~ ~ In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made. ~ ~ Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. ~ ~ What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories. ~ ~ Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~ ~ So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for fuck all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard. ~ ~ The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs. ~ ~ It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. ~ ~ Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~ ~ Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past. ~ ~ The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. ~ ~ There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. ~ ~ I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. ~ ~ The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts. ~ ~ At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. ~ ~ Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind. ~ ~ Being poor is a little like having an earache over a Bank Holiday. All you can think about is the pain and how long it will be before a healing hand can be found to take away the anguish. ~ ~ The true love is a state of half-madness, of some kind of soft obsession, ruling a so delicate kind of feeling that can lead a person from the greatest happiness to the most dreadful pain. ~ ~ All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. , Jr 1929 ~ ~ Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice. ~ ~ It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
~ ~ May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life
facing each new situation with courage and optimism. ~ ~ Love and hate are such strong words, they also cause so much pain ~ |
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