#pain

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends. ↗

— Tom Waits

#friends #pain #real #real friends #real pain

What part of people is resistant to an artist doing more than one thing? Is it somehow perceived as greedy? Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#anyone #artist #become #cook #creative

Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. ↗

— T.H. White

#dichotomy #happiness #pain #stoicism #beauty

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#disadvantage #eye #forms #gives #governs

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain. ↗

— Patricia Velasquez

#bad girl #come #every #every time #girl

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth. ↗

— John Travolta

#any #birth #emotions #goes #pain

To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?' ↗

— Larry Ellison

#i #i do #jobs #like #model

Painting, I think it's like jazz. ↗

— Brian Eno

#i think #jazz #like #painting #think

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#another #could #first #how #indeed

As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#better #breathing #feel #felt #go