Quotes About Beauty

I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.

No offense to Bushwick, where all my neighbors greeted me on the street and there is a growing arts community and a curious beauty to its industrial zone, but Bushwick is no Williamsburg, even if the real estate agents would have you believe it is.

You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.

I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.

I have a complicated relationship with the zoo; maybe everyone does. It's so wonderful and so sad.

If I could adopt any zoo animal, it would be a giraffe. I have always loved giraffes. They are so graceful and beautiful to watch.

The most beautiful thing is inevitability of events, and the most ugly thing is trying to resist inevitability.

No rose without a thorn.

A flower falls even though we love it. A weed grows even though we don't love it.

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.

Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.

But, Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe, and on my jolitee, It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But age, alias! that al wole envenyme, Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go, farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon, ther is namoore to telle; The bren, as I best kan, now most I selle.

After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

Art is a staple, like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another; and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

Dancing is the body made poetic.

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.

Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

Good architecture is like a piece of beautifully composed music crystallized in space that elevates our spirits beyond the limitation of time.