Quotes About Beauty

I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.

I like to paint nudes mostly.

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

I went through an obsession with eyebrows. I used to paint my eyebrows really, really strong. I look back now, and some were a little bit strong.

I was shadow health secretary for six years, and the beauty of being in opposition - if there is any beauty - is that you tend to get a pretty unvarnished view because no one bothers to paint the coal white before you turn up.

I'm an art collector, have been for years, and I paint. Needless to say, the artwork in my houses, apartment is extensive.

For some people, makeup is their war paint; that's putting their best foot forward. Others feel better with no makeup. It's so personal - who are we to judge?

I love to paint.

I don't see a problem with looking at women as beautiful objects. I'm an artist. I don't know how to paint, but I know how to make music, and women are art.

When I was with my second husband, I'd always paint my nails and go to bed with my make-up on; he loved all that.

I've had a lifelong love affair with makeup. When I was a little girl, I used to take my mother's makeup and paint all of my dolls' faces, and I even painted the dog's face!

The most romantic thing I ever did to my woman? I painted her toenails!

Chris Cornell painted in song the darkness and beauty of life in Seattle.

A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.

I love painting.

I have always been fond of painting landscapes.

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.

A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness.

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.