Quotes About Beauty

If it has a use it isn't art.

It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.

Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Art is my life and my life is art.

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

Colors are light's suffering and joy

We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!

I view art as an inspirational tool.

Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.

Mind is shapely, Art is shapely.

Art is as useful as bread.

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)

... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.

I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made is a piece of art.

the one universal form of art is music.

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.

Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.

Art is the right hand of Nature.