#pain

Painters must speak through paint, not through words. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#paint #painters #speak #through #words

Somewhere beyond the pain, you turn around and realize that life is beautiful. ↗

— T.L. Rese

#existence #life #pain #beauty

When she remembers to look at herself in a spiritual light, she sees the deep capacity for love this pain has brought her. The realization fills her with wonder. Now she can rise in the morning and greet the new day with eagerness and grace. ↗

— Harold Kemp

#grace #love #pain #spiritual-dreaming #wonder

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go. ↗

— May Sarton

#pain #survival #business

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#human #human heart #like #mark #pain

I hate painting. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#i #painting

Pain is love. ↗

— Ja Rule

#pain

I don't particularly like going on about being gay or making a big thing about it, but I think it's a bit of a pain to be secretive about it. ↗

— Evan Davis

#being #big #big thing #bit #gay

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#bearing #benefit #cost #decent #few

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#allowed #dulling #excellence #goodbye #human