
“As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.”
Source: Catching Fire
Source: Catching Fire
“As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.”
Source: Catching Fire
“The pain passes but the beauty remains.”
As quoted in: Instituto Nacional de Previsión (Spain) (1974). 6.o Congreso Internacional de Medicina Fisica: 2-6 julio 1974. p. 424
Renoir replied to Matisse, who had asked him why he persisted in painting at the expense of such torture.
undated quotes
“Beauty can pierce one like pain.”
Buddenbrooks [Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie, Roman], Pt 11, Ch. 2
“Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain”
Song lyrics, Time Out of Mind (1997), Not Dark Yet
“At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.”