925 private quotes tagged beauty

“Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.” — Goldwin Smith

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“First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.” — Gustav Stickley

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“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.” — Max Eastman

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“The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.” — Paul Getty

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“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.” — David Hockney

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“Things are beautiful if you love them.” — Jean Anouilh

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“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.” — Gian Carlo Menotti

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“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.” — Jean Rostand

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“When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.” — Agnes Martin

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“Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.” — Alfred de Vigny

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“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.” — Walter Hagen

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“O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.” — Christopher Marlowe

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“Beauty is whatever gives joy.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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“Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.” — Redd Foxx

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“Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.” — Henry James

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“Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.” — Priscilla Presley

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“There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.” — Conrad Hall

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“Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.” — Walter Pater

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“Beauty is not everything!” — Chita Rivera

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“I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty.” — Rachel Roy

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“What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?” — Sarah Bernhardt

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“As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.” — Idina Menzel

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“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.” — Munshi Premchand

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