Quotes About Beauty

Art is the proper task of life.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy happiness.

it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified .

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?

Wohl bin ich ein Wald und eine Nacht dunkler Bäume: doch wer sich vor meinem Dunkel nicht scheut, der findet auch Rosenhänge unter meinen Zypressen.

What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew is lying upon it?

To be sure, I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but (s)he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one ought to beat him. Truth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: – that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly – that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.

Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.

Smooth ice is paradise for those who dance with expertise.

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking

We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion about us.

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

I do not know how to make a distinction between tears and music

Only cast your pure eyes into the well of my delight, friends! You will not dim its sparkle! It shall laugh back at you with its purity.

if you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. morals have aesthetic criteria.