Quotes About Author

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for the archaic, and the canon of beauty.

One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.

Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.

Don't worry. I won't send you off without warning. Just stand there and be awed by my beauty. It's the safest mode around me. (Savitar)

Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

Vietnam is absolutely breathtaking. I've never been to that part of the world before and it is an area of such natural beauty.

I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them.

Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces.

Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.

I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.

I decided to write [Collateral Beauty] on my own which made it the first spec script I wrote in 11 years.

The Heavenly City will vie with the moon and even the sun for beauty and splendour!

The whole point about beauty is its imperfection.

The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.

For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?

Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.

Talk of heaven! ye disgrace earth.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

It just feels good to say we're the best team in the world, with the best player in the world.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism is under assault.

I've always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I've always said is the best coach in the history of the league.