#pain

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#doubt #never #out #pain #pleasure

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. ↗

— Herb Caen

#bigger #born-again #christians #even #pain

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes. ↗

— Ada Cambridge

#deal #eyes #halt #hideous #justice

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. ↗

— Jung Chang

#been #between #china #chinese #constant

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

— Charlie Chaplin

#pain #relief #tonic

Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious. ↗

— Vince Clarke

#longer #painful #precious

I like the transience of Klimt paintings. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#like #paintings

As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise. ↗

— Charlie Crist

#allergic #beholden #billionaires #bullies #compromise

I have been in love with painting ever since I became conscious of it at the age of six. I drew some pictures I thought fairly good when I was fifty, but really nothing I did before the age of seventy was of any value at all. At seventy-three I have at last caught every aspect of nature–birds, fish, animals, insects, trees, grasses, all. When I am eighty I shall have developed still further and I will really master the secrets of art at ninety. When I reach a hundred my work will be truly sublime and my final goal will be attained around the age of one hundred and ten, when every line and dot I draw will be imbued with life. - from Hokusai’s ‘The Art Crazy Old Man ↗

— Hokusai Katsushika

#drawing #painting #age

...A painting was a translation of the language of my heart. ↗

— Amy Tan

#painting #art