#pain

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on. ↗

— Chris Martin

#agree #although #most #negatively #ones

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. ↗

— Karl Marx

#mental #only #pain #physical #physical pain

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#himself #make #music #musician #must

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain. ↗

— John Masefield

#coming #like #old #slow #solemn

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites. ↗

— Diana Ross

#difficult #felt #greater #happiness #i

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#between #difference #i #only #paint

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#i #i do #literally #me #paint

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#else #everybody #everybody else #i #i do

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. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#before #creative #difficult #ever #first

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#great #great joy #joy #just #just be