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âArt is the response of mans creative soul to the call of the realâ
â Rabindranath Tagore
âBeauty lies in the eyes of the beholderâ
â Plato
âThe camera should be used for a recording of life for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itselfâ
â Edward Weston
âThe flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.â
â William Wordsworth
âYour engagement with your surroundings is crucial what you see is what you areâ
â Olafur Eliasson
âI want to do with you what spring does with the cherry treesâ
â Pablo Neruda
âThe best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.â
â Helen Keller
âEvery child is an artist the problem is how to remain an artist once we grow upâ
â Pablo Picasso
âIf a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in musicâ
â Gustav Mahler
âTo look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.â
â Oscar Wilde
âWhat would life be if we had no courage to attempt anythingâ
â Vincent van Gogh
âHold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot flyâ
â Langston Hughes
âEvery day is a journey and the journey itself is homeâ
â Matsuo Basho
âMusic is the space between the notesâ
â Claude Debussy
âAppreciation is a wonderful thing it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as wellâ
â Voltaire
âNever lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.â
â Charles Kingsley
âWhy shouldnt art be pretty there are enough unpleasant things in the worldâ
â Pierre-Auguste Renoir
âWrite it on your heart that every day is the best day in the yearâ
â Ralph Waldo Emerson
âWherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.â
â Anthony J. D'Angelo
âChange your life today do not gamble on the future act now without delayâ
â Simone de Beauvoir
âWalking into the wind the mountains never moveâ
â Santoka Taneda
âThe function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe to ask the right questions and to elevate the mindâ
â Marina Abramovic
âAll works no matter what or by whom painted are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles unless they are painted after lifeâ
â Caravaggio
âLove of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.â
âStudy nature love nature stay close to nature it will never fail youâ
â Frank Lloyd Wright
âArt can become a physical resource that mediates between the ecologist and the industrialistâ
â Robert Smithson
âWalk as if you are kissing the earth with your feetâ
â Thich Nhat Hanh
âI believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the starsâ
â Walt Whitman
âWhere there is nothing everything is possible where there is architecture nothing else is possibleâ
â Rem Koolhaas
âColors blind the eye sounds deafen the earâ
â Lao Tzu
âInstructions for living a life pay attention be astonished tell about itâ
â Mary Oliver
âArt is the highest form of hopeâ
â Gerhard Richter
âThe wound is the place where the light enters youâ
â Rumi
âThe pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.â
âNothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I seeâ
â Henri Rousseau
âMany paths lead from the foot of the mountain but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moonâ
â Ikkyu
âIf I could say it in words there would be no reason to paintâ
â Edward Hopper
âNothing can ever happen twiceâ
â WisÅawa Szymborska
âBeauty is a basic service like health careâ
â Theaster Gates
âI believe that architecture today needs to reflect on the tasks and possibilities which are inherently its ownâ
â Peter Zumthor
âHave nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautifulâ
â William Morris
âThe time will come when with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own doorâ
â Derek Walcott
âFashions fade style is eternalâ
â Yves Saint Laurent
âEverything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.â
â Confucius
âThe world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharperâ
â Auguste Rodin
âI wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own beingâ
â Hafiz
âThere are some things you learn best in calm and some in stormâ
â Willa Cather
âAnd now let us welcome the new year full of things that have never beenâ
â Rainer Maria Rilke
âSomeone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness it took me years to understand that this too was a giftâ
âArt is not what you see but what you make others seeâ
â Degas
âTo photograph is to confer importance on thingsâ
â Susan Sontag
âI believe in art as a tool for understanding lifeâ
â Ernesto Neto
âIn every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeksâ
â John Muir
âHave no fear of perfection you will never reach itâ
â Salvador Dali
âWhen you reach the top of the mountain keep climbingâ
â Zen Proverb
âLook deep into nature and then you will understand everything betterâ
â Albert Einstein
âTake an object do something to it do something else to itâ
â Jasper Johns
âA thing of beauty is a joy foreverâ
â John Keats
âBeauty is not all about just nice loveliness like beauty is about more rounded substantial becomingâ
â John O Donohue
âDrawing is a way of seeing how I thinkâ
â Richard Serra
âI have always been influenced by nature rather than other artâ
â Ellsworth Kelly
âBeauty is the mystery of life it is not in the eye it is in my mindâ
â Agnes Martin
âHe who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.â
â John Burroughs
âI think most artists create out of despair the very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outsideâ
â Louise Nevelson
âArt is born from life and returns to lifeâ
â Bill Viola
âThe earth has music for those who listen.â
â William Shakespeare
âBeauty is not in the face beauty is a light in the heartâ
â Khalil Gibran
âTo err is human to forgive divineâ
â Alexander Pope
âIf the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship he would keep it in port foreverâ
â Thomas Aquinas
âEvery good painter paints what he isâ
â Jackson Pollock
âWhat is beautiful is good and who is good will soon also be beautifulâ
â Sappho
âThere is no must in art because art is freeâ
â Wassily Kandinsky
âThe beauty of the world has two edges one of laughter one of anguish cutting the heart asunderâ
â Anais Nin
âLet the beauty of what you love be what you do.â
âWhen I am working on a problem I never think about beauty but when I have finished if the solution is not beautiful I know it is wrongâ
â Buckminster Fuller
âA line is a dot that went for a walkâ
â Paul Klee
âHappiness is the absence of the striving for happinessâ
â Zhuangzi
âA dream you dream alone is only a dream a dream you dream together is realityâ
â Yoko Ono
âLiterature is the most agreeable way of ignoring lifeâ
â Fernando Pessoa
âArt should be something you can touch and it should be something aliveâ
â Niki de Saint Phalle
âI am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical that does something other than sit on its behind in a museumâ
â Claes Oldenburg
âHappiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance order rhythm and harmonyâ
â Thomas Merton
âEverything is sculpture any material any idea without hindrance born into spaceâ
â Isamu Noguchi
âBeauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.â
â Kahlil Gibran
âIt is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eyeâ
â Antoine de Saint-Exupery
âBeauty is how you feel inside and it reflects in your eyesâ
â Sophia Loren
âThe camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a cameraâ
â Dorothea Lange
âIn all my works light is an important controlling factorâ
â Tadao Ando
âThere is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.â
â Francis Bacon
âThe present moment is filled with joy and happiness if you are attentiveâ
â Edgar Degas
âI try to apply colors like words that shape poems like notes that shape musicâ
â Joan Miro
âColor in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energeticâ
â Gaudi
âGood architecture lets nature inâ
â Marcel Breuer
âI started painting because I had nothing else to do and then it became my lifeâ
â Yoshitomo Nara
âThe only thing that is constant is changeâ
â Heraclitus
âThe earth laughs in flowersâ
â e.e. cummings
âThink of all the beauty still left around you and be happyâ
â Anne Frank
âThe most beautiful thing in the world is of course the world itselfâ
â Wallace Stevens
âI have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of libraryâ
â Jorge Luis Borges
âIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficultâ
â Seneca
âI took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart I am I am I amâ
â Sylvia Plath
âThe soul is healed by being with childrenâ
â Dostoevsky
âI dont think about art when I work I try to think about lifeâ
â Jean-Michel Basquiat
âI have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetryâ
â John Cage
âBeauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.â
â Unknown
âThe sublime is not about what you can see but about what you cannot seeâ
â Anish Kapoor
âThe thief left it behind the moon at my windowâ
â Ryokan
âNo object is so beautiful that under certain conditions it will not look uglyâ
âNothing lasts nothing is finished and nothing is perfectâ
â Wabi Sabi Proverb
âI have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tasteâ
â Marcel Duchamp
âSomeday after mastering the winds the waves the tides and gravity we shall harness the energies of love and then for a second time in the history of the world man will have discovered fireâ
â Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
âWhen you take a flower in your hand and really look at it its your world for the momentâ
â Georgia O Keeffe
âThere are no rules that is how art is born how breakthroughs happenâ
â Helen Frankenthaler
âWealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wantsâ
â Epictetus
âPerception is the medium through which states of being unfold as visual sensationâ
â Bridget Riley
âColor is my daylong obsession joy and tormentâ
â Monet
âBeauty is the shadow of God on the universe.â
â Gabriela Mistral
âNot until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselvesâ
â Henry David Thoreau
âBeauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.â
â David Hume
âI dont think that architecture is only about shelter about a very simple enclosure it should be able to excite you to calm you to make you thinkâ
â Zaha Hadid
âYour first ten thousand photographs are your worstâ
â Henri Cartier-Bresson
âThe job of the artist is always to deepen the mysteryâ
âThe object of art is not to reproduce reality but to create a reality of the same intensityâ
â Alberto Giacometti
âYour daily life is your temple and your religionâ
âI really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly because they are surrounded by things like that all day longâ
â Robert Rauschenberg
âIf you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.â
âI found I could say things with color and shapes that I had no words forâ
âThere are always flowers for those who want to see themâ
â Henri Matisse
âSpring passes and one remembers ones innocenceâ
âI who have arrived in heaven I survey the panorama of the cosmos from the edge of the universeâ
â Yayoi Kusama
âCome forth into the light of things let Nature be your teacherâ
âI want to make things that are fun to look atâ
â Alexander Calder
âThe world is charged with the grandeur of Godâ
â Gerard Manley Hopkins
âArchitecture is basically a container of something and I hope they will enjoy not so much the container as the contentâ
â Kenzo Tange
âBeauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.â
âArchitecture is inhabited sculptureâ
â Constantin Brancusi
âThe butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enoughâ
âI exist as I am that is enoughâ
âI have transformed myself in the zero of form and have fished myself out of the rubbishy slough of academic artâ
â Kazimir Malevich
âCurves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazilâ
â Oscar Niemeyer
âBefore enlightenment chop wood carry water after enlightenment chop wood carry waterâ
âNever lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful for beauty is Gods handwritingâ
âLet everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going no feeling is finalâ
âWorks of art are of an infinite solitude and no means of approach is so useless as criticismâ
âWhen I think of art I think of beauty beauty is the mystery of lifeâ
âThose who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lastsâ
â Rachel Carson
âIn all affairs its a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for grantedâ
â Bertrand Russell
âDeserve your dreamâ
â Octavio Paz
âEverything has its beauty but not everyone sees itâ
â Andy Warhol
âI am large I contain multitudesâ
âIn the mountain twilight I lean alone against the pineâ
â Wang Wei
âLet the beauty we love be what we do there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the groundâ
âPersonal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.â
â Aristotle
âWhen I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.â
â R. Buckminster Fuller
âFor small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through loveâ
â Carl Sagan
âThe best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.â
âDesign is not for philosophy its for lifeâ
â Issey Miyake
âTo create ones own world takes courageâ
âThe beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.â
â Audrey Hepburn
âEveryone is an artistâ
â Joseph Beuys
âWabi-sabi nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.â
âIf we opened people up we would find landscapesâ
â Agnes Varda
âMy work is about space and the light that inhabits itâ
â James Turrell
âThe work of art is a scream of freedomâ
â Christo
âFrom the withered tree, a flower blooms.â
â Zeami Motokiyo
âIf you want a place to rest cold Mountain is goodâ
â Han Shan
âHeaven is under our feet as well as over our headsâ
âToo lazy to be ambitious I let the world take care of itselfâ
âI paint flowers so they will not dieâ
â Frida Kahlo
âBeauty will save the worldâ
â Fyodor Dostoevsky
âIf I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vainâ
â Emily Dickinson
âI must have flowers always and alwaysâ
â Claude Monet
âWe do not see things as they are we see them as we areâ
âIf you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovelyâ
â Roald Dahl
âMy goal is to erase architectureâ
â Kengo Kuma
âA special kind of beauty exists which is born in language of language and for languageâ
â Gaston Bachelard
âAll art is a kind of confession more or less oblique all artists if they are to survive are forced at last to tell the whole truthâ
â James Baldwin
âThe inferno of the living is not something that will be if there is one it is what is already here the inferno where we live every dayâ
â Italo Calvino
âNature does not hurry yet everything is accomplishedâ
âIf a path to the better there be it begins with a full look at the worstâ
â Thomas Hardy
âBeauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirrorâ
âBeauty is not caused it isâ
âIn spring it is the dawn that is most beautifulâ
â Sei Shonagon
âArt is for everybodyâ
â Keith Haring
âThere are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects itâ
â Edith Wharton
âWe delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone throughâ
â Maya Angelou
âThe painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares forâ
â Lucian Freud
âDwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.â
â Marcus Aurelius
âI saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him freeâ
â Michelangelo
âTo live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is allâ
âIf heaven had granted me five more years I could have become a real painterâ
â Katsushika Hokusai
âSimplicity is complexity resolvedâ
â Brancusi
âArt is a way of knowing what it is we actually believeâ
â Ruth Asawa
âThe purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the mostâ
â John Ruskin
âTo see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflowerâ
â William Blake
âThe secret of life is to have a task something you devote your entire life toâ
â Henry Moore
âFlowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul intoâ
â Henry Ward Beecher
âSpace and light and order those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleepâ
â Le Corbusier
âIn this world nothing is certain people and things are always changingâ
â Murasaki Shikibu
âSpace is made by the artist or architect it is not found and packagedâ
â Donald Judd
âIt is not down in any map true places never areâ
â Herman Melville
âColor is the keyboard the eyes are the harmonies the soul is the piano with many stringsâ
âI who leave the world and turn away from it even to me the moon is a friendâ
â Saigyo
âBeauty is the promise of happiness.â
â Stendhal
âSunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us up snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weatherâ
âArt does not show people what to do yet engaging with a good work of art can connect you to your sensesâ
âLet my thoughts come to you when I am gone like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silenceâ
âThe world is not with us enough O taste and seeâ
â Wendell Berry
âAn original is a creation motivated by desire any reproduction is motivated by necessityâ
â Man Ray
âIn this world we walk on the roof of hell gazing at flowersâ
â Issa
âPeople are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.â
â Elisabeth KÃŧbler-Ross
âEverything has beauty but not everyone sees itâ
â Ansel Adams
âSimplicity is the ultimate sophisticationâ
â Leonardo da Vinci
âAutumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flowerâ
â Albert Camus
âI do not produce the work the encounter doesâ
â Lee Ufan
âThe most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysteriousâ
âArt is either plagiarism or revolutionâ
â Paul Gauguin
âFor us there is only the trying the rest is not our businessâ
â T.S. Eliot
âGod is in the detailsâ
â Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
âLive quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before youâ
â Paramahansa Yogananda
âGood design is as little design as possibleâ
â Dieter Rams
âThere is a crack in everything that is how the light gets inâ
â Leonard Cohen
âFrom the age of six I had a mania for drawing the shapes of thingsâ
â Hokusai
âThough we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.â
âEverything is art everything is politicsâ
â Ai Weiwei
âArt is not about creating something perfect its about expressing something trueâ
â Takeshi Kitano
âWe sit together the mountain and me until only the mountain remainsâ
â Li Bai
âFashion should be a form of escapism and not a form of imprisonmentâ
â Alexander McQueen
âThe true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily lifeâ
âThe beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soulâ
âArt grows out of each particular situation and I believe that artists are better off working with whatever their environment throws upâ
â El Anatsui
âI dream of painting and then I paint my dreamâ
âThere are no ugly loves nor handsome prisonsâ
â Mark Twain
âDwell on the beauty of life watch the stars and see yourself running with themâ
âIn the tea room it is left for each guest in his imagination to complete the total effect in relation to himselfâ
â Okakura Kakuzo
âBeauty is an experience nothing else it is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of featuresâ
â D.H. Lawrence
âOne of the great beauties of architecture is that each time it is like life starting all over againâ
â Renzo Piano
âBeauty begins the moment you decide to be yourselfâ
â Coco Chanel
âTo be an artist is to believe in lifeâ
âOne must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.â
â Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
âSeeing comes before words the child looks and recognizes before it can speakâ
â John Berger
âWhat makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a wellâ
âWhat we achieve inwardly will change outer realityâ
â Plutarch
âThe mind that is not baffled is not employedâ
âBeauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.â
âNothing gives a fearful man more courage than another mans fearâ
â Umberto Eco
âThe beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.â
â Virginia Woolf
âArt washes away from the soul the dust of everyday lifeâ
âThe soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.â
âI rarely draw what I see I draw what I feel in my bodyâ
â Barbara Hepworth
âBeauty is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possibleâ
â Simone Weil
âThere is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.â
â John Kenneth Galbraith
âAn old silent pond a frog jumps into the pond splash silence againâ
âI am not what I am I am what I do with my handsâ
â Louise Bourgeois
âBeauty awakens the soul to act.â
â Dante Alighieri
âBeing creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be doneâ
â Anni Albers
âThe day is coming when a single carrot freshly observed will set off a revolutionâ
â Paul Cezanne
âAn artist should not lie to himself or others an artist should not steal ideas from other artists an artist should not compromise for themselves or in regards to the art marketâ
âNo medicine cures what happiness cannotâ
â Gabriel Garcia Marquez
âAs an architect you design for the present with an awareness of the past for a future which is essentially unknownâ
â Norman Foster
âThe moon tonight over the old capital reminds me of autumn pastâ
â Du Fu
âColor does not add a pleasant quality to design it reinforces itâ
â Pierre Bonnard
âEven the darkest night will end and the sun will riseâ
â Victor Hugo
âEarth is crammed with heaven and every common bush afire with Godâ
â Elizabeth Barrett Browning
âLight is the origin of all beingâ
âArt cannot be modern art is primordially eternalâ
â Egon Schiele
âI have felt the wind of the wing of madnessâ
â Charles Baudelaire
âLife is art art is life I never separate itâ
âThe pain passes but the beauty remainsâ
âArt is a guarantee of sanityâ
âIt is like a beautiful disease that affects me very stronglyâ
â Cy Twombly
â W.B. Yeats
âI paint my own reality the only thing I know is that I paint because I need toâ
âThe position of the artist is humble he is essentially a channelâ
â Piet Mondrian
âIf the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.â
â Eleonora Duse
âIn every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.â
â Christopher Morley
âPerhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courageâ
âWhere there is ruin there is hope for a treasureâ
âIf you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.â
âBeauty is the purgation of superfluities.â
âGreat art picks up where nature endsâ
â Marc Chagall
âThe world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles only by a spiritual journeyâ
âNobody sees a flower really it is so small we havent time and to see takes timeâ
âIn three words I can sum up everything I learned about life it goes onâ
â Robert Frost
âSitting quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itselfâ
âBeauty addresses itself chiefly to sight but there is a beauty for the hearing too as in certain combinations of words and in all kinds of musicâ
â Plotinus
âThe flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.â
âYou can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from comingâ
âI am interested only in expressing basic human emotions tragedy ecstasy doom and so onâ
â Mark Rothko
âThe world stands out on either side no wider than the heart is wideâ
â Edna St Vincent Millay
âWhoever does not know the truth is simply a fool yet whoever knows the truth and calls it a lie is a criminalâ
â Gustav Klimt
âWhen I know your soul I will paint your eyesâ
â Amedeo Modigliani
âArt has to move you and design does not unless its a good design for a busâ
â David Hockney
âAcknowledge the beauty within you and it will be reflected in everything you seeâ
â Eckhart Tolle
âArt is a kind of illnessâ
â Giacomo Puccini
âA thing of beauty is a joy for ever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.â
âI do not seek I findâ
âI feel that art has a powerful role to play in shaping the consciousness of a societyâ
â Shirin Neshat
âThings are not difficult to make what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make themâ
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