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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention, — Dorothea Lange

If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;
be worthy of the grace of God. — William Wordsworth

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty. — Rose Bird

I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion — Isaac Albeniz

With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life. — Muriel Barbery

Find the beauty in everyone and everything, everyday!
Roxanne Catherine Mapp — Roxanne Catherine Mapp

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is. — Rebecca Makkai

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand — Dan Brown

I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them. — Katharine Susannah Prichard

Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty. — Elizabeth Borton De Trevino

The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life. — Debasish Mridha

Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it. — Richard Matturro

Art makes murder into the supreme image of Beauty and in doing so sets free the vengeful God. (referring to Jean Lorrain's LE VICE ERRANT)
— Jennifer Birkett

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

As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night. — Daniel J. Rice

Every plant has its fitness and must be placed in its proper surroundings so as to bring out its full beauty. Therein lies the art of landscaping. — Jens Jensen

God creates the beauty. My camera and I are a witness. — Mark Denman

Literature is art and art is about passion. It's about drive. It's about beauty. How can you slide through a semester of that and not be moved by it? — Kristen Ashley

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life. — Roger Scruton

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth. — Aberjhani

The spirit of love and good art have equal beauty — Masahisa Goi

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about. — Charlie Haden

In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art. — Bill Watterson

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart. — John Henry Newman

It doesn't matter the genre or type of art, if it's authentic there's an apparent beauty to it and as an artist, that's very inspiring. — Brian McKnight

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid. — Alain LeRoy Locke

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee! — Bryan Procter

I watched the surrounding landscape with great curiosity, and I wanted to discover the words that could describe all its unspoiled beauty. — Daniel J. Rice

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression. — Vladimir Kramnik

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it. — Boris Pasternak

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. — Oscar Wilde

My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there. — Nikki Jean

The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter. — Walter J. Phillips

[ ... ] what Ruskin judged to be the twin purposes of art: to make sense of pain and to fathom the sources of beauty. — Alain De Botton

Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it. — Henry David Thoreau

You can find art and beauty in everything, if you look hard enough. But your beauty is just staring you in the face. — Karina Halle

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process. — Henry James

Beauty is itself so unattainable that it escapes altogether; and the true artist, like the true Mystic, can never rest — Aleister Crowley

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence. — Charlie Chaplin

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response. — Agnes Martin

The strong experience of nature ... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work. — Paul Cezanne

Life is a mystery- mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery. — Amit Ray

When an artist paints a flower, she borrows the beauty from nature and adds fragrance from her own heart. — Debasish Mridha

I am the eye that beholds ... And I am the dreamer that paints the stars in the night sky ... For I am the one they call artist, and you call Love. — Solange Nicole

I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well. — Pat Conroy

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry. — Van Cliburn

People assume that artists must talk about art and beauty and the sublime whenever we get together, but no, we usually talk about money. — Christopher Bram

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art. — Aristotle.

I tell you, you will not see the new beauty and the truth, until you make up your minds to spit. — Kazimir Malevich

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

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances. — Toni Morrison

Among the many answers I have found, I believe love is the most beautiful and simple art that reflects the beauty of life. — Mabel Iam

There is beauty in the art, and a story in the words! spk — Susan Pace-Koch

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty. — Karl Marx

The secrets of art are best learned in secret, and that Beauty, like Wisdom, loves the lonely worshipper. — Oscar Wilde

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art. — Henry David Thoreau

Don't be afraid," he said. "Art is full of agony and beauty. The pen itself a sword of pleasure and pain, isn't it, my poet? — Lisa Carlisle

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. — Salvador Dali

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires. — Edward Abbey

The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear. — Charles Baudelaire

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility — Haile Selassie

We are the measure of all things.
And the beauty of our creation, of our art
is proportional to the beauty of ourselves
of our souls. — Jonas Mekas

And now too late, we see these things are one:
The art is sacrifice and self-control
And who loves beauty must be stern of soul. — Alice Duer Miller

God is beautiful. His beauty demands a response that is shaped that beauty, and that is art. — Michael Card

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. — Victor Hugo

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. — William Shakespeare

Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth. — David R. Brower

A dog can be a living work of art, a constant reminder of the exquisite design and breathtaking detail of nature, beauty on four paws. — Dean Koontz

We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark places in our hearts. — Eilis Flynn

Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor. — Christopher Caudwell

Open spaces sing to my heart
of the art of nature and the nature of art. — Jay Woodman

Art is a reflection of poetry and beauty of the heart and mind without the use of any words. — Debasish Mridha

The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda. — Roger Scruton

Beauty and desire to possess have driven men mad for centuries. — Hannah Rothschild

A good artist does not just make imaginations beautiful to the mind, but also more pleasant to the eye with a superb visible touch of excellence. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

...maybe that's art. Seeing beauty others miss and capturing it. — Jules Barnard

Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error. — Yann Martel

Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair
To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir. — William Shakespeare

Being surrounded by artistic and musical beauty soothes the soul, bringing both quiet calm and creative inspiration ... — Wayne D. Dosick

For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can. — Lawren Harris

You can create art and beauty with a computer. — Steven Levy

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art. — David Mamet

Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process. — Henry James

I still find new things every night, which is the beauty and fun of live theater. It's a living, breathing art form. — Brandon Uranowitz

People despite their struggles, flaws and faults are honestly the most beautiful creatures. We are wonderfully-broken pieces of art. — Alexander Pyles

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

For though, in nature, depth and height
Are equally held infinite:
In poetry, the height we know;
'Tis only infinite below. — Jonathan Swift

[A person's] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. — David Hume

To surround yourself with beauty isn't frivolous. It's a necessity. If it weren't, then our cities would not be surrounded with art museums and parks. — Charlotte Symonds

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, completes what nature left unfinished. — Sophia Loren

Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty. — William Temple

Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine! — Joseph Addison

Art must invent new beauty, not play with what has already been made, religion must invent God and never rest. — Iris Murdoch

Art is not life, and life is not art; but the beauty and horror of the human condition exists between the two. — H.G. Mewis

A tattoo is art and not a possession as love is beauty and intangible. A tattoo is a promise, not an accessory. — Danielle Valenilla