Quotes About Beauty

Although we belong to a species which spends an alarming amount of its time blowing things up, every now and then we are moved to add gargoyles or garlands, stars or wreaths, to our buildings for no practical reason whatever.

what Ruskin judged to be the twin purposes of art: to make sense of pain and to fathom the sources of beauty.

We may find ourselves arguing that, ultimately, it doesn't matter what buildings look like, what is on the ceiling or how the wall is treated - professions of detachment that stem not so much from an insensitivity to beauty as from a desire to deflect the sadness we would face if we left ourselves open to all of beauty's many absences.

Tânjim dup? opere de art? care s? ne compenseze sl?biciunile È™i s? ne ajute s? g?sim calea cea mai viabil?. Consider?m frumoase operele de art? care ne compenseaz? virtuÈ›ile deficitare, respingându-le ca urâte pe cele care ne induc anumite st?ri sau motive de a ne simÈ›i fie ameninÈ›aÈ›i, fie copleÈ™iÈ›i din start. Arta deÈ›ine promisiunea integrit??ii noastre interioare.

Quanto mais difícil é a nossa vida, mais podemos nos comover à imagem graciosa de uma flor. As lágrimas - se elas vêm - são uma reação não à tristeza, e sim à graciosidade da imagem. Não que precisemos nos preocupar. Pelo menos pelos próximos séculos, teremos problemas suficientes para saber que não há o menor risco de as imagens graciosas deixarem de nos comover.

If the search for happiness is the underlying quest of our lives, it seems only natural that it should simultaneously be the essential theme to which beauty alludes.

Chardin had shown him that the kind of environment in which he lived could, for a fraction of the cost, have many of the charms he had previously associated with palaces and the princely life.

it would be more accurate to describe the Madeleine as provoking a moment of appreciation rather than mere recollection. Why don't we appreciate things more widely... inattention or laziness... it may also stem from insufficient exposure to images of beauty, which are close enough to our own world ignorer to guide and inspire us.

La razón por la cual la vida puede tenerse por trivial, aunque en determinados momentos nos parezca tan hermosa, radica en que nos formamos ese juicio, por lo general, no a partir de la vida misma, sino a partir de las imágenes sin duda distintas que nada han preservado de la vida, y por consiguiente la juzgamos en términos desdeñosos.

see the factory-village and the railway, and fancy that the beauty of the landscape is broken up by these, for they are not yet consecrated in their reading. But the true poet sees them fall within the great order of nature not less than the beehive or the spider's geometrical web. Nature adopts them very fast into her vital circles, and the gliding train of cars she loves like her own'.

The ultimate goal of the art lover should be to build a world where works of art have become a little less necessary.

Appreciating the beauty of crusty loaves does not preclude our interest in a château, but failing to do so must call into question our overall capacity for appreciation. The gap between what the dissatisfied youth could see in his flat and what Chardin noticed in very similar interiors places the emphasis on a certain way of looking, as opposed to a mere process of acquiring or possessing.

And insofar as we travel in search of beauty, works of art may in small ways start to influence where we would like to travel to.

Nada que no asuma un riesgo calculado con la fealdad puede ser bello.

It just appears natural to be struck by the beauty of some things and to be left cold by others.

Jarenlang kwam ik bij het boodschappen doen langs een huis dat weliswaar een van de lelijkste gebouwen was dat ik ooit heb gezien, maar me ook meer over architectuur heeft geleerd dan menig meesterwerk.

The reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that we form our judgement, ordinarily, not on the evidence of life itself but of those quite different images which preserve nothing of life—and therefore we judge it disparagingly.

True beauty is indeed the one thing incapable of answering the expectations of an over-romantic imagination.…

classically beautiful women should be left to men without imagination.

What we search for in a work of architecture is not in the end so far from what we search for in a friend.

Odio i belli, non hanno fatto niente per meritarlo, è la società ad avere stabilito che lo sono. Pensate se al mondo fossero i brutti a essere giudicati belli, se quelli come noi fossero considerati degli adoni! La bellezza è un valore, e i valori hanno soltanto la forza che gli attribuiamo.

Marriage is supposed to be a partnership. Good-looking people marry good-looking people and the others take what's left.

It could be a Michael Powell film or a page from the diaries of Denton Welch...the field would make a good Brideshead-like beginning for a film: as it is now and as it was then...'There is nothing I would want to alter or improve. Unattended to, disregarded (though it's grade 1 listed) it is just as the past should be.

Cambridge... the place bowled me over. Leeds, where I had been born and brought up... but though I was not blind to its architectural splendours... I was famished for antiquity. I had never been in a place of such continuous and unfolding beauty as Cambridge and, December 1951 being exceptionally cold, the Cam was frozen and a thick hoarfrost covered every court and quadrangle giving the whole city an unreal and celestial beauty. And it was empty, as provincial places in those days were.