Quotes About Beauty

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Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell.

I hope [Willa] still thinks butterflies are beautiful. I think they are. We shouldn't think for a moment that just because their lives are short they shouldn't be here.

In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)

Art is seduction, not rape.

All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.

How can I describe my life to you? I think a lot, listen to music. I'm fond of flowers

But the landscape of devastation is still a landscape. There is beauty in ruins.

With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.

Philosophy is an art form—art of thought or thought as art

No está mal ser bella lo que está mal es la obligación de serlo.

For Valéry, the nature of beauty is that it cannot be defined; beauty is precisely "the ineffable.

El tiempo termina por elevar casi todas las fotografías, aun las más inexpertas, a la altura del arte.

What is beautiful reminds us of nature as such—of what lies beyond the human and the made—and thereby stimulates and deepens our sense of the sheer spread and fullness of reality, inanimate as well as pulsing, that surrounds us all.

Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize.

Often something looks, or is felt to look, better in a photograph. Indeed, it is one of the functions of photography to improve the normal appearance of things. (Hence, one is always disappointed by a photograph that is not flattering.)

Beautifying is one classic operation of the camera, and it tends to bleach out a moral response to what is shown. Uglifying, showing something at its worst, is a more modern function: didactic, it invites an active response. For photographs to accuse, and possibly to alter conduct, they must shock.

BEAUTY. The visionary authority of Childs's work resides, in part, in its lack of rhetoric. Her strict avoidance of cliché, and of anything that would make the work disjunctive, fragmented. The refusal of humor, self-mockery, flirtation with the audience, cult of personality. The distaste for the exhibitionistic: movement calling attention to itself, isolatable "effects." Beauty as, first of all, an art of refusal.

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El más lógico de los estetas del siglo XIX, Mallarmé, afirmó que en el mundo todo existe para culminar en un libro. Hoy todo existe para culminar en una fotografía.

Fotografiar es conferir importancia. Quizás no haya tema que no pueda ser embellecido; es más, no hay modo de suprimir la tendencia intrínseca de toda fotografía a dar valor a sus temas.

La historia de la fotografía podría recapitularse como la pugna entre dos imperativos diferentes: el embellecimiento, que proviene de las bellas artes, y la veracidad.

There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching.