Quotes About Beauty

Hay belleza o cuando menos interés en todo, si se ve con un ojo suficientemente perspicaz.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art—like physical beauty in a person—is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

I took a trip to see the beautiful things. Change of scenery. Change of heart. And do you know? What? They're still there. Ah, but they won't be there for long. I know. That's why I went. To say goodbye. Whenever I travel, it's always to say goodbye.

Train yourselves by seeking and acknowledging beauty moment by moment every day of your lives, he told them. Exercise your eyes. Take pleasure in the grace of shape and the excitement of color.

It's better to have a hunger and appreciation for beauty than to be merely beautiful. In the end, life is richer that way. She may learn that.

Reproducing nature slavishly is not art.

A woman can't stay hard when all around her is loveliness.

painting. Carefully, I took down the goat, the chicken, and me and

I had brought something out of the earth, and it was used to make something beautiful.

Sì. Ma la bellezza non è tutto. E' meglio essere assetati di bellezza e comprenderla, che essere belli e basta. Alla fine la vita risulta più ricca. Un giorno forse lo imparerà.

Art for art's sake, we say, because beauty blesses humanity with a better life.

Train yourselves by seeking and acknowledging beauty moment by moment every day of your lives

Exercise your eyes. Take pleasure in the grace of shape and the excitement of color.

Styles are merely the copying of what others have done, perhaps done better than we. God has given us our talents so as not to copy the talents of others, but rather to use our own imagination to obtain the revelation of True Beauty.

Regardless of Galileo's logic, the highest of arts, I realized, is to uplift the spirit, whatever means one uses.

That's what great art is supposed to do—help us to live in the spirit and die at peace.

was gone, suddenly and irretrievably, like a zephyr shooting into the night sky, leaving a trail of moonlit particles that swirled in brief, unspeakable beauty, and then faded into nothing.

Natalie reminded herself to savor the deep, rich wine and the glorious colors of the gathering sunset. She had a good life. A good job. A good friend.

She patted her hair, which she wore swept up and held in place with spangled pins. The dress was a dramatic strapless red sheath she and her friend Ariel had found in a church thrift shop. Ariel swore that, after alterations, the dress would look as though it had been tailor-made for Rosa. The bright cherry-red was delicious, the open-toed ruby and rhinestone sandals made her look taller and she felt wonderful.

I'm glad i found photography. It's a way to connect with the world.

He wanted to experience the world in all its messy, confusing glory.

Thank you for all the Acts of Light which beautified a summer now passed to its reward. —letter from Emily Dickinson to Mrs. John Howard Sweetser

Seeing him amid the yellow leaves and berry-colored hips of the spent roses, and the fading hollyhocks gone to seed along the garden wall, filled her heart.

heart—life had grace notes. These were moments so sweet that they could be tucked like the smallest of keepsakes, never to be forgotten. She