Quotes About Beauty

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

The purpose of art is delectation.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

There is no art without a poetic aim.

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Art is the daughter of pleasure.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

Art without color would lose much of its purpose.

Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

It is because everything must come to an end that everything is so beautiful.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.

Architecture is the king or queen of the arts.

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.