Quotes About Beauty

Seeing well transforms mere existence into the art of living.

If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the vase on a pedestal and shine a spotlight on the crack!

Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature.

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

Art is nothing without form.

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

Cars for me are like a piece of art.

The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

Only art means anything.

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.

Nobody needs an Artist, but everyone needs ART.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

Art can make chaos seductive.

The brightest sun of the art always rises on the horizons of unhappiness.