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Quotes About Beauty

Sunflowers are like people to me.
~ Joan Mitchell
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
~ Clara Schumann
Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
~ Laurette Taylor
Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.
~ Diane Paulus
Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
~ Thomas Kinkade
Into the ocean went a world more fantastic than any imagination could inspire.
~ Robert Wyland
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously.
~ Solomon R. Guggenheim
Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.
~ Oscar Niemeyer
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
God has given us our talents, not to copy the talents of others, but rather to use our brains and imagination in order to obtain the revelation of true beauty.
~ Louis Comfort Tiffany
All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination.
~ Leonardo Sciascia
Of course! The path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world, and the gestures with which you honor it.
~ Mary Oliver
But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
~ William Wordsworth
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
~ Eduard Hanslick
Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.
~ Norman Douglas
This is music that will disturb your imagination and delight your heart-a rare combination.
~ Jeremy Begbie
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
~ Richard Le Gallienne
Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties
~ Timothy Keller
It's important to excite the imagination of a woman.
~ Oscar de la Renta
My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.
~ Alan Moore
With music and art, I can create the kind of world in which I wish to live.
~ Joseph Curiale