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