A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

One word, Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Pain don't hurt.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Sunlight is painting.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy