Quotes About Struggle

I know I've done bad things. But I've done just as much good as I have done bad. And it's not even necessarily bad. I would say they're growing pains.

I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.

Honestly, the pains of humanity have been draining me.

Its crazy: my name is Artist, and I dead can't even paint.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

I think that's what makes characters interesting - when you paint a person into a corner, and you see what they do to get out of that corner. It's what makes drama drama.

An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.

I know how to paint... In a way there is a boredom there because a lot of the magic is gone.

I don't think people realize what those weight cuts were doing to me. It took so much out of me to make 155. I wish I could put into words what it was like, to be able to paint the picture of my weight cuts, but I can't. All I can say is that every fight week was a complete misery.

My dad painted cars for a living. He didn't graduate from high school.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.

I always think that painters are fighting over the last original brushstroke. To find your own voice is incredibly hard.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it, but I didn't have anything to say in that medium.

I paint. I have been painting since I was kid. If I hadn't gone into radio when I did, I probably would have come out of the Army, gone into the art business, and probably would have flopped because I'm not that great.

My paintings are rubbish.

It's hard to live just by selling paintings.

My mom is always asking why can't I make something nice? Because I'll make paintings, say, and they're just really bloody and angsty. So I wrote 'Dark Parts' because I wanted to write something nice for her.

No one purposefully paints a bad painting. It's someone who's trying to do a good painting, but it's terrible. I have one with a matador, and the bull is going through the blanket. You can tell the painter didn't know how to paint it.

The movies saved my life. I grew up in the great depression, the only child of a pair of star crossed lovers. My father lost his job. My mother drank. They fought. The movies were my escape.