Quotes About Beauty

Rita Haywood gave good face.

my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.

Enemies of art are the opposite of the Sun; they emit darkness instead of light!

Creative vision creates art" - he motioned around the gallery - "that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's beautiful thing." "Or some sort of madness", she said.

Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime.

Nothing else exists when art does.

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

Music is the perfect type of art.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

The eye is the best of artists.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

And I saw Australia anew through her eyes. And I realised what a tremendously thrilling country it was. And ever since then I have been coming back regularly.

Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.

It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than the pictures themselves.

I collect a lot of art.