Quotes About Beauty

Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.

Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.

To me, the building [of Museum of Arts and Design]now looks like a lovely jewel box, and the tiled façade reminds me of a heat shield.

The arts are the signature of a nation.

What I'm good at is making art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!

I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!

... for, by all the stars That tend thy bidding, I do think the bars That kept my spirit in are burst - that I Am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

To me, figure skating is an art form, and that's what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.

The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art.

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

When I see a beautiful piece of art, it inspires me to be creative.

It's wonderful that nothing you write is ever going to be as beautiful as what's in your head, because that gap is where the art can enter and begin to stretch its limbs.

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

Art must not stop at the level of pleasing eyes.

The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.

My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.