Quotes About Beauty

The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistinguishable from nature itself.

The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we're all gonna get ugly.

I want to be a living work of art.

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

Strength of character may be acquired at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.

Life is so short, so beautiful. Don't be so serious about work. Enjoy the lives.

Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.

My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.

I want to be the joy to people through my work.

Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.

I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.

Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.

The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.