#pain

If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#never #painful #problem #reach #solution

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes. ↗

— Abbey Lincoln

#brushes #couch #i #lay #paint

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#films #going #just #like #make

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#each #light #like #other #pain

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#i #music #only #painting #things

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. ↗

— George Byron

#away #cervantes #chivalry #country #demolished

When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#doing #drive #ears #eyes #hands

I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw. ↗

— Johan Cruijff

#cross #draw #end #enter #i

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again. ↗

— Laurel Lee

#beyond #could #forgive #form #grooves

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ↗

— Thomas Macaulay

#because #gave #hated #pain #pleasure