Quotes About Beauty

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.

When I started to work on perfume, I could not reduce the idea of a woman to one smell.

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

I remember trying to work out like crazy to get rid of all of my womanly features because I thought they made me fat.

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

Those people who wake up and they're just beautiful, they're just born that way. Well that ain't me. I gotta work for everything I've got.

Perhaps only silence and love do justice to a great work of art

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.

The product of the head, heart and hand is a thing to be loved.

Every work of art is about everything.

A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.

Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.

I need my products to work and be fast! I don't love having 50 different things in my bathroom, like a different cream for every inch of my face. That's so not me.

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.

A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.

The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.