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Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these. (Ansel Adams)
The sunrise, of course, doesn't care if we watch it or not. It will keep on being beautiful, even if no one bothers to look at it. (Gene Amole)
Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love. (Anonymous)
Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God. (Jean Anouilh)
The beautiful is that which is desirable in itself. (Aristotle)
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. (Kevyn Aucoin)
Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul. (Kevyn Aucoin)
It's better to say, "I'm suffering," than to say, "This landscape is ugly." (W. H. Auden)
Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new. (Saint Augustine)
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised. (Marcus Aurelius)
I choose to paint beauty. (Igor Babailov)
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. (Sir Francis Bacon)
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. (Sir Francis Bacon)
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. (Sir Francis Bacon)
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite. (George Bancroft)
Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty. (Charles Baudelaire)
That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty. (Charles Baudelaire)
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. (Al Bernstein)
bait, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty. (Ambrose Bierce)
To the beautiful belongs an endless variety. It is seen not only in symmetry and elegance of form, in youth and health, but is often quite as fully apparent in decrepit old age. It is found in the cottage of the peasant as well as the palace of kings. (George Caleb Bingham)
Exuberance is beauty. (William Blake)
Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness, but with poverty everything becomes frightful. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely. (Nicolas Boileau)
A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one's life. There is an urge to say, 'I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.' (Alain de Botton)
Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than an indication that the disrupted equilibrium between man and nature has once again been restored by art. Submitted to this test, what remains of contemporary works of art? (Gyula Halasz, Brassai)
Does a rose exist that I might behold it? Or do I exist that a rose might be beheld? (Robert Brault)
-Nadja, 1926...
Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all. (Andre Breton)
Let us not mince words... the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful. (Andre Breton)
For beauty being the best of all we know / Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims / Of nature. (Robert Bridges)
Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful. (Rupert Brooke)
I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms. (Thomas Browne)
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. (Robert Browning)
Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly. (Gelett Burgess)
I do not bring beauty to people's lives; I, perhaps, draw their attention to beauty which is already there. (George Buytendorp)
She walks in Beauty, like the night / Of cloudness climes and starry skies, / And all that's best of dark and bright / Meet in her aspect and her eyes... (Lord Byron)
Beauty is everywhere, but one may see the beautiful view and the other sees a dirty window. You have the power within you to choose what you see, what you think and what you paint. (Leanne Cadden)
The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. (John Cage)
Beauty always has something remote. (Elias Canetti)
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum. (Alexis Carrel)
There can be no better training in the discrimination of what is healthy and beautiful in men and women than a severe course of drawings from casts of antique [Greek] statues. (John Collier)
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. (Confucius)
There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, – light, shade, and perpective will always make it beautiful. (John Constable)
Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature. I am struck upon seeing a certain place. While I strive for conscientious imitation, I yet never for an instant lose the emotion that has taken hold of me. (Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot)
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found, it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it. (Gustave Courbet)
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. (Gustave Courbet)
The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself. (Victor Cousin)
Beauty is good for you. It makes you feel better. (Alexander Creswell)
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. (Salvador Dali)
We need beauty in our lives. We're hard-wired for it, and this need has been with us since the earliest human groupings. Creating art allows us to express our deepest feelings and ideas without having to put a name to them. (Robert Dalton)
Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution. (Eugene Delacroix)
What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions. (Eugene Delacroix)
Beauty only happens once. (Jacques Derrida)
The most beautiful colors of a painting, a universe or a pun. / Where sometimes we find are two, there was only room for one. (Epic Dewfall)
Beauty is not caused. It is. (Emily Dickinson)
Beauty crowds me till I die. (Emily Dickinson)
I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful... (Otto Dix)
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man. (Fyodor Dostoevski)
Mud, rubbish and dirt are man's companions all his life; shouldn't they be precious to him, and isn't one doing man's service to remind him of their beauty? (Jean Dubuffet)
I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty. (Marcel Duchamp)
What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things. (Albrecht Durer)
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Each moment of the year has its own beauty... a picture which was never seen before and which shall never be seen again. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Which do we decide to see, beauty or its opposite? How do we decide to live our lives? (Ian Factor)
Nonsense and beauty have close connections. (E. M. Forster)
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I've finished, if the solution isn't beautiful, I know it's wrong. (Buckminster Fuller)
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. (Serge Gainsbourg)
There's too much beauty upon this earth for lonely men to bear. (Richard Le Gallienne)
To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul. (Mahatma Gandhi)
There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover. (Paul Gauguin)
To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art. (Theophile Gautier)
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror. (Kahlil Gibran)
Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone. (Roy R. Gilson)
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Art is constitutive – the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear. (Andy Goldsworthy)
Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has become almost uniquely feminine. Beauty is woman, and also art is woman. (Remy de Gourmont)
There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art. (Baltasar Gracian)
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy. (Lord Greville)
Art gives us the opportunity to escape the mundanity and ugliness of life and enter into an extraordinary world of imagination, creativity and beauty. (Hap Hagood)
Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the acquisitive instinct, or lust for anything whatsoever. (Lawren Harris)
For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can. (Lawren Harris)
The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once evoked, will never leave him alone, until he brings his work and life into some semblance of harmony with its spirit. (Lawren Harris)
Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful. (Charles Hawthorne)
Anything under the sun is beautiful of you have the vision - it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so. (Charles Hawthorne)
Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more. (Shirley Hazard)
You're beautiful, like a May fly. (Ernest Hemingway)
The highest form of beauty is where no form and no structure are left. (Hoseki Shin'ichi Hisamatsu)
Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face. (David Hockney)
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. (Horace)
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art. (Ian Hornak)
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. (David Hume)
Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder. (Margaret Wolfe Hungerford)
Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful. (A. Y. Jackson)
In art economy is always beauty. (Henry James)
The hours when the mind is absorbed by beauty are the only hours when we really live. (R. Jefferies)
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. (Franz Kafka)
That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul. (Wassily Kandinsky)
A thing of beauty is a joy forever. (John Keats)
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' – that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. (John Keats)
Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life. (Roger Kimball)
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it. (Paul Klee)
For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all. (Kathe Kollwitz)
-Aloneness Is Not Loneliness / The Book of Life
Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Too often the real beauty of life is missed as we submit to the daily grind. One role of the artist is to observe the beauty that others miss and help them see it through their creative pursuits. (Gary Lanthrum)
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness – just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value. (Eric Maisel)
The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection. (Eric Maisel)
Beauty can pierce one like a pain. (Thomas Mann)
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. (Michelangelo)
Euclid alone / Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they / Who, though once only and then but far away, / Have heard her massive sandal set on stone. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore the object must be eliminated from the picture. (Piet Mondrian)
The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. (Thomas Moore)
None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild. (John Muir)
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening – still all is Beauty! (John Muir)
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail. (Edward A. Navajo)
Beauty is whatever gives joy. (Hugh Nibley)
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty and untouchable... and knows no kindness with all its beauty. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty. (Phil Ochs)
Without art, without beauty, our life would be poor, dull and unemotional, and it could bring about erosion of the human soul. (Valentin Okorokov)
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. (Ouida)
Beauty is a fragile gift. (Ovid)
I don't want it all to be pretty – it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about... (Cornelia Parker)
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. (Walter Pater)
Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent. (Pope John Paul II)
Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right. (Donald Culross Peattie)
All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life. (J. B. Phillips)
Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind. (Walter J. Phillips)
For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same. (Plato)
Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown upon his work. So do you also... (Plotinus)
-lived: 204-270 AD...
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order... (Plotinus)
Why should beauty be suspect? (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world. (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
There is much beauty here, because everywhere there is much beauty. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty. (Auguste Rodin)
There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth. (Auguste Rodin)
-on Rigoberto Rodriguez...
In the end, the beauty of the work asks to be shared, as one might share a secret treat. Silent and fleeting remains the sweet and slightly bitter taste of creation, but it is the first sturdy foothold on the museum mission as a bridge that welcomes the viewer to the work of art. (Carlos Cesar Rodriguez)
Beauty is the promise of happiness. (Henri Rousseau)
I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, "Put this design in your carpet!" (Rumi)
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance. (John Ruskin)
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. (Bertrand Russell)
Beauty does not exist to be ignored, rather it is a reflection of the soul that invites our participation. (Linda Saccoccio)
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable: what it is or what it means can never be said. (George Santayana)
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
Beauty is the love that we devote to an object. (Paul Serusier)
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. (William Shakespeare)
Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty. (William Shenstone)
Someone spoke to me of the beauty in a grain of sand. I placed that beauty
beneath the microscope of my limited knowledge and realized it was not
powerful enough to see between the spaces of the atoms, the information held
by time. (Lynda Gaelyn Smith)
Ownership of something beautiful does not make it more beautiful. (William Carmen Soyak III)
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning. (Stendhal)
One can only reach complete beauty... by means of an irrational game... where form and color are not means in themselves, but means of liberating the strongest functions of the image residing in the imagination. (Max Walter Svanberg)
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides. (Junichiro Tanizaki)
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve. (Henry David Thoreau)
To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That is actually a higher state of consciousness than thinking. (Eckhart Tolle)
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. (Leo Tolstoy)
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? (Lily Tomlin)
- Innocents Abroad
One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare. (Mark Twain)
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten. (Chuang Tzu)
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us. (John Updike)
Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty. (Thorstein Veblen)
A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to which the painter replied that he made his pictures by day, and his children by night. (Leonardo da Vinci)
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. (Voltaire)
I am interested in beauty which can best be described as being on time for the appointment. (Brett Whiteley)
Beauty seen is never lost, / God's colors all are fast. (John Greenleaf Whittier)
Those great alphine meadows that look so wonderfully soft aren't really all that soft. There's a bitter wind howling through them, but they are nonetheless incredibly beautiful for it. (Randy Wiens)
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. (Oscar Wilde)
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. (Oscar Wilde)
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty. (Paramahansa Yogananda)
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