504 quotes
“「Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.」”
— Marcus Aurelius
“「Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.」”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“「Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.」”
— Anthony J. D'Angelo
“「Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower」”
— Albert Camus
“「Simplicity is complexity resolved」”
— Brancusi
“「Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts」”
— Rachel Carson
“「Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful for beauty is Gods handwriting」”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“「Beauty is the shadow of God on the universe.」”
— Gabriela Mistral
“「Beauty will save the world.」”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“「Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.」”
— Rumi
“「We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.」”
— Maya Angelou
“「If you want a place to rest cold Mountain is good」”
— Han Shan
“「There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons」”
— Mark Twain
“「A thing of beauty is a joy forever」”
— John Keats
“「I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free」”
— Michelangelo
“「Have no fear of perfection you will never reach it so embrace the beauty of failure」”
— Salvador Dali
“「We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through」”
“「It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye」”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“「Art is not what you see but what you make others see」”
— Degas
“「Deserve your dream」”
— Octavio Paz
“「The moon tonight over the old capital reminds me of autumn past」”
— Du Fu
“「The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.」”
— Unknown
“「Despite everything life is full of beauty and meaning if only we have compassion enough to see it」”
— Etty Hillesum
“「The beauty of the world has two edges one of laughter one of anguish cutting the heart asunder」”
— Anais Nin
“「The only thing that is constant is change」”
— Heraclitus
“「The work of art is a scream of freedom」”
— Christo
“「To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.」”
— Oscar Wilde
“「Change your life today do not gamble on the future act now without delay」”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“「I do not produce the work the encounter does」”
— Lee Ufan
“「One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.」”
— Sigmund Freud
“「Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.」”
— Charles Kingsley
“「What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality」”
— Plutarch
“「Good architecture lets nature in」”
— Marcel Breuer
“「The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.」”
— William Butler Yeats
“「I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars」”
— Walt Whitman
“「Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous — to poetry.」”
— Thomas Mann
“「To be beautiful means to be yourself. You do not need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.」”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“「Beauty is not in the face beauty is a light in the heart」”
— Khalil Gibran
“「The earth laughs in flowers.」”
— Emerson
“「Beauty will save the world. Peace will sustain it.」”
— Dostoyevsky
“「All works no matter what or by whom painted are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles unless they are painted after life」”
— Caravaggio
“「The thief left it behind the moon at my window」”
— Ryokan
“「The wound is the place where the light enters you」”
“「Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars and see yourself running with them.」”
“「Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful」”
— William Morris
“「I have transformed myself in the zero of form and have fished myself out of the rubbishy slough of academic art」”
— Kazimir Malevich
“「Colors blind the eye sounds deafen the ear」”
— Lao Tzu
“「Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.」”
— Confucius
“「Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts and that beauty is found in simplicity」”
“「Every day is a journey and the journey itself is home」”
— Matsuo Basho
“「When 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.」”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
“「Art is the highest form of hope」”
— Gerhard Richter
“「My work is about space and the light that inhabits it」”
— James Turrell
“「Earth is crammed with heaven and every common bush afire with God」”
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“「Beauty 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 music」”
— Plotinus
“「Beauty is not caused it is」”
— Emily Dickinson
“「Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity」”
— Plato
“「What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well」”
“「Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness it took me years to understand that this too was a gift」”
— Mary Oliver
“「Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself」”
— Coco Chanel
“「Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts through wonder」”
“「I dream of painting and then I paint my dream」”
— Vincent van Gogh
“「Spring passes and one remembers ones innocence」”
— Yoko Ono
“「The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched they must be felt with the heart」”
— Helen Keller
“「The sublime is not about what you can see but about what you cannot see」”
— Anish Kapoor
“「Beauty is a basic service like health care」”
— Theaster Gates
“「Some people look for a beautiful place others make a place beautiful」”
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
“「The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most」”
— John Ruskin
“「If you truly love nature you will find beauty everywhere.」”
“「At some point in life the beauty of the world is enough.」”
— Toni Morrison
“「Perception is the medium through which states of being unfold as visual sensation」”
— Bridget Riley
“「A thing of beauty is a joy for ever its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness despite time」”
“「If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship he would keep it in port forever」”
— Thomas Aquinas
“「To be beautiful means to be yourself. You dont need to be accepted by others. You need only accept yourself and find peace.」”
“「One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.」”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“「The time will come when with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door」”
— Derek Walcott
“「To be beautiful means to be yourself. You dont need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.」”
“「A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.」”
“「Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.」”
“「In spring it is the dawn that is most beautiful」”
— Sei Shonagon
“「Art cannot be modern art is primordially eternal」”
— Egon Schiele
“「An old silent pond a frog jumps into the pond splash silence again」”
“「When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty but when I have finished if the solution is not beautiful something is wrong for beauty is wonder」”
— Buckminster Fuller
“「Beauty is the mystery of life it is not in the eye it is in my mind」”
— Agnes Martin
“「True beauty is born of the imperfect」”
— Soetsu Yanagi
“「A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language of language and for language」”
— Gaston Bachelard
“「In the mountain twilight I lean alone against the pine」”
— Wang Wei
“「Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you the future will take care of itself」”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“「The world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper」”
— Auguste Rodin
“「There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.」”
— John Kenneth Galbraith
“「Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.」”
“「I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library」”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“「If 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.」”
— Eleonora Duse
“「Let the beauty we love be what we do there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground」”
“「Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you.」”
“「If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint」”
— Edward Hopper
“「The secret of life is to have a task something you devote your entire life to」”
— Henry Moore
“「No mud no lotus the most beautiful things grow from difficulty」”
— Dostoevsky
“「Great art picks up where nature ends」”
— Marc Chagall
“「Beauty is truth truth beauty and both are experienced through a deep sense of wonder」”
“「The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life」”
“「Drawing is a way of seeing how I think」”
— Richard Serra
“「When I think of art I think of beauty beauty is the mystery of life」”
“「The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.」”
“「Nothing can make our life or the lives of other people more beautiful than perpetual kindness」”
— Leo Tolstoy
“「When 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 wrong」”
“「True beauty is not made it is born naturally」”
— Sori Yanagi
“「The poetry of the earth is never dead.」”
“「To walk in beauty means to walk with gratitude and appreciation for the natural world」”
— Angeles Arrien
“「Art grows out of each particular situation and I believe that artists are better off working with whatever their environment throws up」”
— El Anatsui
“「Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.」”
— Marilyn Monroe
“「The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat suffering and loss yet found faith」”
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“「It is not down in any map true places never are」”
— Herman Melville
“「Beauty is an experience nothing else it is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features」”
— D.H. Lawrence
“「Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life」”
— Fernando Pessoa
“「Space and light and order those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep」”
— Le Corbusier
“「Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems.」”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“「The position of the artist is humble he is essentially a channel」”
— Piet Mondrian
“「Beauty will save the world」”
“「Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it」”
“「I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste」”
— Marcel Duchamp
“「Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon」”
— Ikkyu
“「Come forth into the light of things let Nature be your teacher」”
— William Wordsworth
“「I must have flowers always and always」”
— Claude Monet
“「Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done」”
— Anni Albers
“「Color does not add a pleasant quality to design it reinforces it」”
— Pierre Bonnard
“「For us there is only the trying the rest is not our business」”
— T.S. Eliot
“「The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.」”
“「And now let us welcome the new year full of things that have never been」”
“「I paint my own reality the only thing I know is that I paint because I need to」”
— Frida Kahlo
“「Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.」”
“「In this world we walk on the roof of hell gazing at flowers」”
— Issa
“「From the withered tree, a flower blooms.」”
— Zeami Motokiyo
“「Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.」”
— Annie Dillard
“「What is beautiful is good and who is good will soon also be beautiful」”
— Sappho
“「Nothing lasts nothing is finished and nothing is perfect」”
— Wabi Sabi Proverb
“「Light is the origin of all being」”
— Tadao Ando
“「The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat and found their way out of the depths」”
“「The object of art is not to reproduce reality but to create a reality of the same intensity」”
— Alberto Giacometti
“「The earth has music for those who listen.」”
— William Shakespeare
“「Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication」”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“「Everybody needs beauty as well as bread places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.」”
— Muir
“「The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.」”
— John Vance Cheney
“「Let my thoughts come to you when I am gone like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence」”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“「We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through.」”
“「No mud no lotus.」”
“「There is no must in art because art is free」”
— Wassily Kandinsky
“「Too lazy to be ambitious I let the world take care of itself」”
“「Art is either plagiarism or revolution」”
— Paul Gauguin
“「Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves」”
— Henry David Thoreau
“「To be beautiful means to be yourself you dont need to be accepted by others you need to accept yourself」”
“「The 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 day」”
— Italo Calvino
“「Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.」”
— David Hume
“「Happiness is the secret to all beauty; there is no beauty that is attractive without happiness.」”
— Christian Dior
“「Let everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going with compassion no feeling is final」”
“「Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.」”
“「I who have arrived in heaven I survey the panorama of the cosmos from the edge of the universe」”
— Yayoi Kusama
“「The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera」”
— Dorothea Lange
“「We do not see things as they are we see them as we are」”
“「Good design is as little design as possible」”
— Dieter Rams
“「Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into」”
“「I want to make things that are fun to look at」”
— Alexander Calder
“「The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles only by a spiritual journey」”
— Wendell Berry
“「We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty」”
“「The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.」”
— Audrey Hepburn
“「If we opened people up we would find landscapes」”
— Agnes Varda
“「The lotus flower blooms most beautifully from the deepest and thickest mud.」”
“「The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.」”
— Francis Bacon
“「The moment you accept yourself you become beautiful.」”
— Osho
“「The family is one of nature's masterpieces.」”
— George Santayana
“「Appreciation is a wonderful thing it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well」”
— Voltaire
“「The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it but the way those atoms are put together and that arrangement is wonder」”
— Carl Sagan
“「The earth laughs in flowers」”
— e.e. cummings
“「There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it」”
— Edith Wharton
“「From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things」”
— Hokusai
“「Nobody sees a flower really it is so small we havent time and to see takes time」”
— Georgia O Keeffe
“「The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.」”
“「God is in the details」”
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“「The beauty of the world is the mouth of a labyrinth and those who follow it find wonder at every turn」”
— Simone Weil
“「Whenever you are creating beauty around you you are restoring your own soul」”
— Alice Walker
“「No object is so beautiful that under certain conditions it will not look ugly」”
“「Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet」”
“「Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another mans fear」”
— Umberto Eco
“「The beauty and the mystery of life lies not in avoiding the difficult moments but in being open to them」”
— Orhan Pamuk
“「In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.」”
— Aristotle
“「I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being」”
— Hafiz
“「Beauty speaks like an oracle and ever since man has heeded its message in many ways」”
— Luis Barragan
“「Things are not difficult to make what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them」”
— Constantin Brancusi
“「Art does not show people what to do yet engaging with a good work of art can connect you to your senses」”
— Olafur Eliasson
“「There are no rules that is how art is born how breakthroughs happen」”
— Helen Frankenthaler
“「If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain」”
“「If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music」”
— Gustav Mahler
“「In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.」”
— Christopher Morley
“「Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life」”
“「A line is a dot that went for a walk」”
— Paul Klee
“「To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.」”
“「The world stands out on either side no wider than the heart is wide」”
— Edna St Vincent Millay
“「The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough」”
“「The day is coming when a single carrot freshly observed will set off a revolution」”
— Paul Cezanne
“「Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly」”
— Langston Hughes
“「Nothing can ever happen twice」”
— Wisława Szymborska
“「Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror」”
— Kahlil Gibran
“「The present moment is filled with joy and happiness if you are attentive」”
“「The world of dew is a world of dew, and yet, and yet.」”
— Kobayashi Issa
“「One ought every day at least to hear a little song read a good poem see a fine picture and if it were possible to speak a few reasonable words.」”
“「There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.」”
“「In all my works light is an important controlling factor」”
“「The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat known suffering known struggle known loss and have found their way out of the depths.」”
“「There is a crack in everything that is how the light gets in」”
— Leonard Cohen
“「The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat suffering struggle loss and have found their way out of the depths through kindness」”
— Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“「To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower.」”
— William Blake
“「Your engagement with your surroundings is crucial what you see is what you are」”
“「I rarely draw what I see I draw what I feel in my body」”
— Barbara Hepworth
“「Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.」”
— Anne Frank
“「Everything is sculpture any material any idea without hindrance born into space」”
— Isamu Noguchi
“「Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.」”
“「Healing yourself is one of the most difficult yet beautiful commitments you can make」”
— Yung Pueblo
“「Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads」”
“「Color is the keyboard the eyes are the harmonies the soul is the piano with many strings」”
“「The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful itself. To see with compassion is to be transformed.」”
“「Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil」”
— Oscar Niemeyer
“「A thing of beauty is a joy forever.」”
“「Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you」”
“「No mud, no lotus.」”
“「I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart I am I am I am」”
— Sylvia Plath
“「Art is a way of knowing what it is we actually believe」”
— Ruth Asawa
“「The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.」”
“「Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.」”
“「The lotus grows in muddy water, yet rises above the surface to bloom with remarkable beauty.」”
“「Every good painter paints what he is」”
— Jackson Pollock
“「The camera should be used for a recording of life for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself」”
— Edward Weston
“「An 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 market」”
— Marina Abramovic
“「One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood」”
— Seneca
“「Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.」”
“「For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love」”
“「Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life」”
— Pablo Picasso
“「Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance order rhythm and harmony」”
— Thomas Merton
“「To create ones own world takes courage」”
“「Art is for everybody」”
— Keith Haring
“「Take an object do something to it do something else to it」”
— Jasper Johns
“「Beauty is how you feel inside and it reflects in your eyes」”
— Sophia Loren
“「Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness」”
— Zhuangzi
“「In the tea room it is left for each guest in his imagination to complete the total effect in relation to himself」”
— Okakura Kakuzo
“「I believe that architecture today needs to reflect on the tasks and possibilities which are inherently its own」”
— Peter Zumthor
“「The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious it is the source of all true art and science」”
— Albert Einstein
“「An original is a creation motivated by desire any reproduction is motivated by necessity」”
— Man Ray
“「The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat known suffering known struggle known loss and have found their way out of the depths」”
“「The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.」”
“「Life is art art is life I never separate it」”
— Ai Weiwei
“「Before enlightenment chop wood carry water after enlightenment chop wood carry water」”
— Zen Proverb
“「A flower falls, yet it returns to the branch — look, a butterfly!」”
— Moritake Arakida
“「Have no fear of perfection you will never reach it」”
“「Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.」”
“「What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.」”
“「The life of a designer is a life of fight against the ugliness」”
— Massimo Vignelli
“「Someday 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 fire」”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“「People 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.」”
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“「Whoever does not know the truth is simply a fool yet whoever knows the truth and calls it a lie is a criminal」”
— Gustav Klimt
“「Fashion should be a form of escapism and not a form of imprisonment」”
— Alexander McQueen
“「Seeing comes before words the child looks and recognizes before it can speak」”
— John Berger
“「Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!」”
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
“「Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.」”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“「Design is not for philosophy its for life」”
— Issey Miyake
“「In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks」”
— Ansel Adams
“「The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.」”
— Blake Lively
“「Everyone is an artist」”
— Joseph Beuys
“「Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see」”
— Henri Rousseau
“「Fashions fade style is eternal」”
— Yves Saint Laurent
“「My goal is to erase architecture」”
— Kengo Kuma
“「One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.」”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“「Art is born from life and returns to life」”
— Bill Viola
“「To the attentive eye each moment of the year has its own beauty and a picture of wonder that was never seen before」”
“「Love is the beauty of the soul.」”
— Saint Augustine
“「Travel and tell no one. Live a true love story and tell no one. Live happily and tell no one. People ruin beautiful things.」”
“「Sunshine 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 weather」”
“「The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery」”
“「Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder」”
“「Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will sense them and the world is full of wonder」”
“「What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything」”
“「The pain passes but the beauty remains」”
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“「I think most artists create out of despair the very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside」”
— Louise Nevelson
“「Art has to move you and design does not unless its a good design for a bus」”
— David Hockney
“「There are always flowers for those who want to see them.」”
— Henri Matisse
“「Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it because not everyone approaches life with wonder」”
“「Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.」”
“「Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.」”
“「Study nature love nature stay close to nature it will never fail you」”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
“「In three words I can sum up everything I learned about life it goes on」”
— Robert Frost
“「I 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 think」”
— Zaha Hadid
“「Art is the response of mans creative soul to the call of the real」”
“「Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished」”
“「Architecture is inhabited sculpture」”
“「He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.」”
— John Burroughs
“「The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe to ask the right questions and to elevate the mind」”
“「Peace is always beautiful.」”
“「I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical that does something other than sit on its behind in a museum」”
— Claes Oldenburg
“「The most beautiful thing in the world is of course the world itself」”
— Wallace Stevens
“「Color is my daylong obsession joy and torment」”
— Monet
“「I feel that art has a powerful role to play in shaping the consciousness of a society」”
— Shirin Neshat
“「I try to apply colors like words that shape poems like notes that shape music」”
— Joan Miro
“「Beauty awakens the soul to act.」”
— Dante Alighieri
“「To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.」”
“「Wabi-sabi nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.」”
“「Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year」”
“「Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.」”
“「I believe in art as a tool for understanding life」”
— Ernesto Neto
“「Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic」”
— Gaudi
“「I started painting because I had nothing else to do and then it became my life」”
— Yoshitomo Nara
“「There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.」”
“「Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.」”
“「If heaven had granted me five more years I could have become a real painter」”
— Katsushika Hokusai
“「I am large I contain multitudes」”
“「Where there is ruin there is hope for a treasure」”
“「I exist as I am that is enough」”
“「Let the beauty of what you love be what you do creatively.」”
“「Walking into the wind the mountains never move」”
— Santoka Taneda
“「To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.」”
“「I paint flowers so they will not die」”
“「I am interested only in expressing basic human emotions tragedy ecstasy doom and so on」”
— Mark Rothko
“「Clouds come floating into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky.」”
“「In this world nothing lasts forever; the blossoms scatter, the moon wanes.」”
— Murasaki Shikibu
“「The world is not with us enough O taste and see」”
“「Do not try to become anything let the beauty of everything just be it」”
— Adyashanti
“「The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious」”
“「Through color I have sought to concentrate on beauty and happiness」”
— Alma Thomas
“「Art should be something you can touch and it should be something alive」”
— Niki de Saint Phalle
— W.B. Yeats
“「The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.」”
“「Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.」”
— Katharine Lee Bates
“「I 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 long」”
— Robert Rauschenberg
— John Muir
“「The moon goes down beauty is shut in behind its doors.」”
— Tu Fu
“「Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and peace.」”
“「I have felt the wind of the wing of madness」”
— Charles Baudelaire
“「One ought every day at least to hear a little song read a good poem see a fine picture and if it were possible to speak a few reasonable words toward peace.」”
— Goethe
“「Space is made by the artist or architect it is not found and packaged」”
— Donald Judd
“「Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror and we are the mirror filled with wonder」”
“「Everything is art everything is politics」”
“「As an architect you design for the present with an awareness of the past for a future which is essentially unknown」”
— Norman Foster
“「Let the beauty we love be what we do there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground with kindness」”
“「Works of art are of an infinite solitude and no means of approach is so useless as criticism」”
“「Your first ten thousand photographs are your worst」”
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
“「I do not think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.」”
“「All 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 truth」”
— James Baldwin
“「To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all」”
“「Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy」”
“「The duty of delight is to find beauty and simplicity in everyday things」”
— Dorothy Day
“「Art is a kind of illness」”
— Giacomo Puccini
“「There are always flowers for those who want to see them」”
“「In nature nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted bent in weird ways and they are still beautiful.」”
“「At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.」”
“「One can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.」”
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
“「Colors are the smiles of nature.」”
— Leigh Hunt
“「Acknowledge the beauty within you and it will be reflected in everything you see」”
— Eckhart Tolle
“「A beautiful thing is never perfect it is simply itself in its natural simplicity」”
— Publilius Syrus
“「If 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.」”
“「With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.」”
— Lope de Vega
“「She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible she walked with the universe on her shoulders and made it look like a pair of wings」”
— Nikki Rowe
“「Music is the space between the notes」”
— Claude Debussy
“「Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it」”
— Andy Warhol
“「When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it its your world for the moment」”
“「Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.」”
“「I who leave the world and turn away from it even to me the moon is a friend」”
— Saigyo
— Edgar Degas
“「How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it.」”
— George Elliston
“「I do not think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains」”
“「Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise」”
— Victor Hugo
“「When you reach the top of the mountain keep climbing」”
“「Art is a guarantee of sanity」”
— Louise Bourgeois
“「The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.」”
— Virginia Woolf
“「Beauty is the promise of happiness.」”
— Stendhal
“「I do not seek I find」”
“「You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.」”
— Nietzsche
“「The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.」”
“「Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courage」”
“「To be an artist is to believe in life」”
“「People 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 light from within.」”
“「If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.」”
“「In all affairs its a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted」”
— Bertrand Russell
“「I do not think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.」”
“「We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through in its cocoon」”
“「Dwell on the beauty of life and watch the stars and see yourself running with them in wonder」”
“「Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better」”
“「Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants」”
— Epictetus
“「I found I could say things with color and shapes that I had no words for」”
“「The soul is healed by being with children」”
“「In the realm of family there is nothing ugly or unworthy when approached with love.」”
“「Dwell on the beauty of life watch the stars and see yourself running with them」”
“「One who would pick the roses must not fear the thorns.」”
— Saadi Shirazi
“「To err is human to forgive divine」”
— Alexander Pope
“「If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely」”
— Roald Dahl
“「The world is charged with the grandeur of God」”
“「To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower」”
“「No medicine cures what happiness cannot」”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“「Architecture is basically a container of something and I hope they will enjoy not so much the container as the content」”
— Kenzo Tange
“「The earth has enough for everyone's need, and beauty to spare.」”
“「To photograph is to confer importance on things」”
— Susan Sontag
“「When I know your soul I will paint your eyes」”
— Amedeo Modigliani
“「Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.」”
“「We sit together the mountain and me until only the mountain remains」”
— Li Bai
“「Art is the stored honey of the human soul.」”
— Theodore Dreiser
“「I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry」”
— John Cage
“「If a path to the better there be it begins with a full look at the worst」”
— Thomas Hardy
“「Sitting quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itself」”
“「Let everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going no feeling is final」”
“「Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.」”
— Charles Dickens
“「One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time it is like life starting all over again」”
— Renzo Piano
“「Art can become a physical resource that mediates between the ecologist and the industrialist」”
— Robert Smithson
“「A dream you dream alone is only a dream a dream you dream together is reality」”
“「The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for」”
— Lucian Freud
“「Where there is nothing everything is possible where there is architecture nothing else is possible」”
— Rem Koolhaas
“「Some say an army of horsemen some an army of foot and some of ships is the fairest thing on the black earth but I say it is what you love.」”
“「The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream of family life is the one that sings.」”
“「The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.」”
“「I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees」”
— Pablo Neruda
“「In this world nothing is certain people and things are always changing」”
“「The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul」”
“「Every child is an artist the problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up」”
“「Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end.」”
— Robin Sharma
“「There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm」”
— Willa Cather
“「I dont think about art when I work I try to think about life」”
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
“「Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.」”
“「Art is not about creating something perfect its about expressing something true」”
— Takeshi Kitano
“「Beauty will save the world and wonder is the lens through which beauty is perceived」”
“「Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.」”
“「I am not what I am I am what I do with my hands」”
“「I have always been influenced by nature rather than other art」”
— Ellsworth Kelly
“「Beauty is not all about just nice loveliness like beauty is about more rounded substantial becoming」”
— John O Donohue
“「You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming」”
“「Your daily life is your temple and your religion」”
“「Beauty is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible」”
“「The mind that is not baffled is not employed」”
“「People 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」”
“「Late have I loved you, Beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside.」”
— Augustine of Hippo
“「Let the beauty of what you love be what you do and let faith be the bridge from love to action」”
“「Instructions for living a life pay attention be astonished tell about it」”
“「Why shouldnt art be pretty there are enough unpleasant things in the world」”
“「It is like a beautiful disease that affects me very strongly」”
— Cy Twombly
“「The beauty of the trees the softness of the air the fragrance of the grass speaks to me.」”
— Chief Dan George
“「Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight; but there is a beauty for the hearing too.」”
“「It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult」”
“「Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.」”
— Franz Kafka
“「Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.」”
— Louisa May Alcott
“「Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.」”
“「No mud no lotus」”
“「Let the beauty we love be what we do and there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground in wonder」”
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