Quotes About Beauty

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

Art is not disposable.

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.

Art is good but it isn't the best.

Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

Art is when things appear rounded.

Art is a hot soup in this cold world!

Art is about cosmic beauty. Science is about cosmic order. Religion is about cosmic purpose.

Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.

Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.

Art is a path on which we honour our world.

But of works of art little can be said.

All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.