Beauty Quotes - Page 38

Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.

If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with the great renaissance artists, such roles are not mutually exclusive. A great cathedral has both structural impressiveness and delicate detail. A great mathematical theory should similarly be beautiful on both large and small scales.

Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.

One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

I know that I'm an animal that displays bilateral symmetry. I understand that one side should be the mirror of the other, and that human perceptions of beauty are intimately associated with symmetry. For example, I am very handsome.

The spectacular sparkle of set-apart femininity is found through absolute abandonment to the Author of all true beauty.

The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.

The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once evoked, will never leave him alone, until he brings his work and life into some semblance of harmony with its spirit.

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.

"Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever."

Beauty is truth, truth beauty

I like living in the 20th century... to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

Beauty only happens once.

O beautiful white land, olives and wild anemone and violet mingled among the shale, and purple wings of little winter-butterflies say, here Psyche, the soul, lies.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself.

In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.

one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.

We see the beauty within and cannot say no.