Quotes About Beauty

Nothing short of religion could persuade a normal girl to make herself look so awful.

Sometimes when the sky overwhelms the world with crimson, a man becomes the image of himself.

It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I wanted to break out crying from stabs of hopeless joy, or intolerable promise, or because these mornings were too full of beauty for me, because I knew of too much hate to be contained in a world like this.

gobo n. the delirium of having spent all day in an aesthetic frame of mind-watching a beautiful movie, taking photos across the city, getting lost in an art museum-which infuses the world with an aura of meaning, until every crack in the wall becomes a commitment to naturalism, and every rainbow swirling in a puddle feels like a choice.

Christian religion defines morality by a belief system based on a master-slave relationship, and rooted in resentment of the raw beauty and power of the life force.

You can die from kitsch. And we're close to it.

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A fat pink cloud hangs over the hillUnfolding like a rose.If you hold my hand and sit real stillYou can hear the grass as it grows.

The Smoking Mountain (Knopf,

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

The claim that values are not objective, are not part of the fabric of the world, is meant to include not only moral goodness, which might be most naturally equated with moral value, but also other things that could be more loosely called moral values or disvalues—rightness and wrongness, duty, obligation, an action's being rotten and contemptible, and so on. It also includes non-moral values, notably aesthetic ones, beauty and various kinds of artistic merit.

As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price.

Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the Beauty that accompanies what is natural.

A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it.

As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

There is nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse.

I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweet tooth in his head.

A comely old man as busy as a bee.

A rose is sweeter in the bud than full-blown.

It is a world to see.

How at heaven's gates she claps her wings,The morn not waking till she sings.

Because the arts are not about what you can just see or sense; they're about discovering what underlies it all—

We are all beautiful in the eyes of God.

That is at the heart of the concept of "scale," which is very much a common denominator in motivating the region's programmers, hardware hackers, and venture capitalists. It is not enough to make a profit, or to create something that is beautiful. It has to have an impact. It has to be something that goes under 95 percent of the world's Christmas trees, or offers clean water or electricity to billions of people.