Quotes on Beauty

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.

To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole piece of music greater shape, deeper harmony. It allows us to catch our breath.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

We've all lived through something horrific, but the strength and beauty and knowledge that we're going to win eventually is what keeps me going.

Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

For such, _x000D_ Being made beautiful overmuch, _x000D_ Consider beauty a sufficient end, _x000D_ Lose natural kindness and maybe _x000D_ The heart-revealing intimacy _x000D_ That chooses right, and never find a friend.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.

The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age.

There is a beauty in nature and culture that we no longer have access to. Those things you can't forget, you embroider... The further you tell, the further you travel from truth, which means, of course, that literature is a lie.

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.