Quotes About Pain

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.

I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you the capacity to endure and respond to the pain it forces you to feel. Psychological pain, I mean.

I'm a fool to keep staying, when you've made hurting me such an art.

Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid.

You've got to suffer for your art sometimes!

If you want to help people, if you care, go to the cities. The city is where the pain is the greatest - and the cities are a hell of a lot of fun if you like art, movies and plays.

The Christos-image is most difficult to disentangle from its art-craft junk-shop paint-and-plaster medieval jumble of pain-worship and death-symbol.

Pain is not a conduit to art or joy

I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could help; my nature was meant for happiness, a daylight art and living.

You're laughing at everything that's bringing me down.

All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it.

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

Celluloid heroes never feel any pain.

Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.

My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand.

Art never comes from happiness

Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled...in a unique and inimitable way.

Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see.

He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.

Pain fuels artistry and creativity. Harness your suffering and become a master of your art.

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

Suffering is so real & I walk amongst so many who have no idea how much my soul is aching to be healed.