Quotes About Beauty

The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences' he wrote. 'No one can say that the O's roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or a girl's breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things

the book typographer's job was building a window between the reader inside a room and that landscape which is the author's words. He may put up a stained glass window of marvelous beauty, but a failure as a window; that is he may use some rich superb type like text gothic that is something to be look at, not through.

Las preguntas más importantes que debemos hacernos a la hora de elegir y valorar un tipo son: ¿se ajusta a la función que se le ha asignado? ¿Transmite el mensaje? Y ¿añade belleza a este mundo?

The lettering is clean, beautifully proportioned, easily read, and, well, ordered.

A great beauty is a muse for the mind, a great mind a muse for the soul.

This is how all love works. Like Israel's love for God, love does not need deep knowledge of the other to be evoked and sustained-- through, once inspired, it might seek such knowledge. Love is evoked not by beauty or moral goodness (in the sense of kindness) but by the mysterious promise of the loved one to anchor and sustain one's life, such that one can feel at home in the world. Love can never count on requital or justice- and it is perhaps most genuinely love if it doesn't.

Alexandra was tall and blond, with a balcony you could do Shakespeare from.

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. G.H. Hardy

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

Sometimes I wake up and lie still enough to hear a petal drop from the vase of flowers. Sometimes I lie awake and wish there was someone to hear my falling.

But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you.

Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.

And he is enchanted by the beauty of small things: hot coffee, wind through an open window, the tapping of rain, a passing bicycle, the desolation of snow on a winter's day.

The love of a man is like a drop of color into something clear.

He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone.

But sometimes, when confronted by something of unfathomable beauty, the bars of the cage around us begin to tremble. So I ran away to protect myself and remained a prisoner.

I live in Rome where people sit by fountains and kiss. The sound of water is the sound of love rushing between them.

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

All she knows is that someone fell, and that everything beautiful began after.

Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.

it's hard to be gay in a small place like Morano, even though it's beautiful and the streets smell of wood smoke, and you can go anywhere at anytime and you'll never be turned away by anyone. You must understand, it's a question of practicality, not a question of acceptance. Times have changed. In Morano, if you're loved, everything else falls away.

Last night, she'd looked like a million bucks. Tonight, she looked like fifty with change.