Quotes About Beauty

The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.

It doesn't matter the genre or type of art, if it's authentic there's an apparent beauty to it and as an artist, that's very inspiring.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

I guess every musician looks forward to a point where they can just kind of make an album that truly is like a nice art album.

Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats, And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets!

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.

The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means.

I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.

Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.