Quotes About Beauty

While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.

When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf to turn away from the sun -- it loves it there. There's nothing so spiritual about being happy but you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last.

What is the spiritual purpose of the arts? It is to learn structure. Once an artist creates a true structure, then divine love can pour into it and make it a living thing of beauty.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me; For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

If you want to create a beautiful world, people in positions of responsibility and power should know a certain sense of joyfulness and peacefulness.

All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.

Without transcendence, life has no beauty.

Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.

Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face, for i see you there, my dear.

I think Scotland is probably my spiritual home and I love it there very, very much.

Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru' the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man.

It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.

Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides.

Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought.

All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.

Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect carries with it the impress of its Maker and can-if duly considered-read us lectures of ethics or divinity.

To me sometimes a mute sky is more expressive than the roaring sea

Love is the softest rose in the soul's garden.

If you have never seen a masterpiece, look in the mirror.

Life is full of wonder.

...God sometimes sends flowers -but I like it best when he darkens the sky and lights up an infinitude of worlds...

A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.