Quotes About Beauty

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.

Her head is full of bubbles, her nose is petite, she looks like she never gets nothing to eat.

Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.

Mathematics is really an art, not a science.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.

My house, my house, though thou art small, Thou art to me the Escurial.

I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to paint it I see the whole subject - flower - changed. It is now an art problem to resolve.

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

I believe that art has incredible power.

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.

Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.

Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

There must be real gods see, the painted gods how fair!

Everything is inspiring! It could be fine art or a conversation I have with somebody!

My art has gained some high value.

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.

I find inspiration in everything from a piece of art to the hem of a dress.

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. I really like what that suggests. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.