Quotes About Beauty

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

All art is but imitation of nature.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope.

The temple of art is built in words.

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

A game of rugby is a work of art!

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.