Quotes on Beautiful

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for cheapness and not excellence of workmanship is the most frequent and certain cause of the rapid decay and entire destruction of arts and manufacturers.

I am - Somebody. I may be poor, but I am - Somebody! I may be on welfare, but I am - Somebody! I may be uneducated, but I am - Somebody! I must be, I'm God's child. I must be respected and protected. I am black and I am beautiful! I am - Somebody! Soul Power!

I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.

Fail, fail again, fail better.

Our own grandchildren may demonstrate that-sometimes- Gigantic is Beautiful.

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

Then you develop a kind of critical sense about what you write. You can tell when something is good, but it would be just as good in somebody else's work too. You want to hold out for those things only you can say.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer.

Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's hand. Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose; it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance - thrown hard and with precision.

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

May I ask your name, my lady? Or perhaps angels have no names, only beautiful faces.

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.