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I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite. -- Vincent Gallo
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes. -- David Rockefeller
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do. -- John Guare
I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like owning a beautiful painting, except you can live in it. -- Millard Drexler
I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make a beautiful painting of her. It is the painting itself that should be beautiful. -- Max Ernst
I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money. -- Andrew Motion
I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn't work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising. -- Albert Oehlen
God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity. -- Julie Harris
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. -- Giorgio Vasari
Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk. -- Jack Handey
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting. -- Jackie Kennedy
It's really beautiful. But you know, fancy footwear is a pain! -- Sarah Michelle Gellar
Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive. -- Criss Angel
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. -- Michelangelo
I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful. -- Robert Plant
A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look. -- Emma Thompson
It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings, but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing. -- Cilla Black
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. -- Benjamin Britten
Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. -- Philip Pullman
In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where I fell in love with Marilyn Monroe. I knew that she was the most beautiful woman in the world, and yet she was in pain, in need. She was unhappy. I believed that I could help her. -- Edmund White
In life we all go through different situations that cause you to reflect. I had the opportunity to be married to a wonderful person. And for some reason two good people couldn't make a good thing work. But in life, the one thing that I love about being an artist is that you can sometimes use the pain that you go through to make beautiful things. -- Ruben Studdard
Pain can be a beautiful thing. -- Criss Angel
Life is beautiful and living is pain. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain. -- Bob Dylan
The beautiful thing about pain is that it evokes honesty. -- Shawn Stockman
Every beautiful thing in the world is rooted in some kind of pain. -- Bryant McGill
Somewhere beyond the pain, you turn around and realize that life is beautiful. -- T.L. Rese
When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain. -- Alex Ebert
Think of your pain like a bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one. -- Francesca Lia Block
Maybe the less pain we inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us -- Naomi Wolf
When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was. -- Patricia Briggs
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed! -- Petrarch
Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life. -- Aberjhani
I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters. -- Louise Penny
Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life. -- Matthew Fox
I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done. -- George MacDonald
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. -- Hannah Harrington

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