Quotes About Beauty

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

The worker in handicrafts will ask himself if there are not ways by which the sense of beauty could be extended from the somewhat narrow fields of art to the broader field of human relations. And he comes to see that to ask the question is in part to answer it.

What is the great passion of your life?" I asked. "Beauty," he replied without hesitation.

As the dawn telleth the coming of the new day: I turn my eyes to the morning and purge myself in the purity of the dawn. My soul quickeneth with the beauty of the dawn. Today is, and will be. Yesterday was, and has been.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

I always assumed everybody shared my love for overcast skies. It came as a shock to find out that some people prefer sunshine.

The boy thought, How powerful a story is, and how by a kind of magic it compels the imagination; there was nothing in the world, it seemed to him, so mysteriously strong; and he began to wonder if he would ever have anything as beautiful to tell.

The look in his eyes although it was only hatred was beautiful, like a flower upheld on a bent, spindling, breaking stem.

Vieni, mio bel gatto, sul mio cuore innamorato; trattieni le unghie della zampa, e lasciami sprofondare nei tuoi occhi striati di metallo e d'agata" - Charles Baudelaire

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lost sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.

3)"One man's weed is another man's flower." (115).

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. Yet one of the strongest, most thoughtful feminists I know still hides in one-piece bathing suits to conceal her two Cesarean scars. And one of the most hypocritical feminists I know (that is, one who loves feminism but dislikes women) had plastic surgery to remove the tiny scar that gave her face character.

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

Architecture is frozen music.

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies.

If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.

I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light which now disputes with Mother Night her ancient rank and space, and yet cannot succeed; no matter how it struggles, it sticks to matter and can't get free. Light flows from substance, makes it beautiful...

Beauty is everywhere a very welcome guest.

Das Ewig Weibliche zieht uns hinan.

Si je pouvais, nature, être seulement un homme devant toi ; alors, cela vaudrait bien la peine d'être homme !

Encourage the beautiful, for the useful encourages itself.

Aria di primavera, perché mi desti? Tu lusinghi e dici: io do in rugiada gocciole di cielo. Ma il tempo del mio sfiorire è presso, vicina è la bufera che abbatte la mia fronda.

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.