Quotes About Beauty

The Taj Mahal appears like a perfect pearl on an azure ground. The effect is such I have never experienced from any work of art.

Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.

Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art.

Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God.

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .

Architecture is art, nothing else.

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

The art of art... is simplicity.

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.

Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.

Art is what everyone knows it is.

An art book is a museum without walls.

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.