Quotes About Beauty

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail.

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.

The key to personal style is understanding your individual beauty enough to know which looks will work for you and which probably won't.

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.

Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.

"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

I feel more comfortable when I'm lighter - I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I work out, my arms look better.

Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.

What a piece of work is a man

Have you ever thought that the only ugl things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains.

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

Beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up

Attractive things work better When you wash and wax a car, it drives better, doesn't it? Or at least feels like it does.

Intelligence, adaptability and talent. And by talent I mean the capacity for hard work. Lots of girls come here with little but good looks. Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.