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πΊ Beauty
βPeople 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.β
β Elisabeth KΓΌbler-Ross
βI believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the starsβ
β Walt Whitman
βInstructions for living a life pay attention be astonished tell about itβ
β Mary Oliver
βI believe in art as a tool for understanding lifeβ
β Ernesto Neto
βThe earth laughs in flowersβ
β e.e. cummings
βTo live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is allβ
β Oscar Wilde
βThe world is not with us enough O taste and seeβ
β Wendell Berry
βMy work is about space and the light that inhabits itβ
β James Turrell
βNot until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselvesβ
β Henry David Thoreau
βIn every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.β
β Christopher Morley
βI have always been influenced by nature rather than other artβ
β Ellsworth Kelly
βWalk as if you are kissing the earth with your feetβ
β Thich Nhat Hanh
βThe world stands out on either side no wider than the heart is wideβ
β Edna St Vincent Millay
βThe time will come when with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own doorβ
β Derek Walcott
βBeauty will save the worldβ
β Fyodor Dostoevsky
βI want to do with you what spring does with the cherry treesβ
β Pablo Neruda
βI do not seek I findβ
β Pablo Picasso
βI 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 longβ
β Robert Rauschenberg
βNothing gives a fearful man more courage than another mans fearβ
β Umberto Eco
βHold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot flyβ
β Langston Hughes
βIt is like a beautiful disease that affects me very stronglyβ
β Cy Twombly
βThough we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.β
β Ralph Waldo Emerson
βArchitecture is inhabited sculptureβ
β Constantin Brancusi
βIt is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eyeβ
β Antoine de Saint-Exupery
βSpace and light and order those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleepβ
β Le Corbusier
βNothing can ever happen twiceβ
β WisΕawa Szymborska
βTo photograph is to confer importance on thingsβ
β Susan Sontag
βWhoever does not know the truth is simply a fool yet whoever knows the truth and calls it a lie is a criminalβ
β Gustav Klimt
βThe position of the artist is humble he is essentially a channelβ
β Piet Mondrian
βGood design is as little design as possibleβ
β Dieter Rams
βWhat we achieve inwardly will change outer realityβ
β Plutarch
βThe only thing that is constant is changeβ
β Heraclitus
βA special kind of beauty exists which is born in language of language and for languageβ
β Gaston Bachelard
βLook deep into nature and then you will understand everything betterβ
β Albert Einstein
βBeauty is a basic service like health careβ
β Theaster Gates
βWhen you take a flower in your hand and really look at it its your world for the momentβ
β Georgia O Keeffe
βBeauty is the mystery of life it is not in the eye it is in my mindβ
β Agnes Martin
βThe soul is healed by being with childrenβ
β Dostoevsky
βAppreciation is a wonderful thing it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as wellβ
β Voltaire
βTo see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflowerβ
β William Blake
βWe sit together the mountain and me until only the mountain remainsβ
β Li Bai
βFrom the age of six I had a mania for drawing the shapes of thingsβ
β Hokusai
βNothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I seeβ
β Henri Rousseau
βI have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of libraryβ
β Jorge Luis Borges
βI paint my own reality the only thing I know is that I paint because I need toβ
β Frida Kahlo
βNever lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful for beauty is Gods handwritingβ
βI am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical that does something other than sit on its behind in a museumβ
β Claes Oldenburg
βArt is for everybodyβ
β Keith Haring
βBeauty is the shadow of God on the universe.β
β Gabriela Mistral
βIn the tea room it is left for each guest in his imagination to complete the total effect in relation to himselfβ
β Okakura Kakuzo
βThere are no ugly loves nor handsome prisonsβ
β Mark Twain
βThe best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.β
β Francis Bacon
βLet the beauty of what you love be what you do.β
β Rumi
βBeauty is the purgation of superfluities.β
β Michelangelo
βBeauty is an experience nothing else it is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of featuresβ
β D.H. Lawrence
βPerhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courageβ
β Rainer Maria Rilke
βYour daily life is your temple and your religionβ
β Kahlil Gibran
βIn spring it is the dawn that is most beautifulβ
β Sei Shonagon
βI have felt the wind of the wing of madnessβ
β Charles Baudelaire
βThe most beautiful thing in the world is of course the world itselfβ
β Wallace Stevens
βThe job of the artist is always to deepen the mysteryβ
βAn 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 marketβ
β Marina Abramovic
βA line is a dot that went for a walkβ
β Paul Klee
βHappiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance order rhythm and harmonyβ
β Thomas Merton
βThe present moment is filled with joy and happiness if you are attentiveβ
βWealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wantsβ
β Epictetus
βThe beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.β
β Virginia Woolf
βThe function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe to ask the right questions and to elevate the mindβ
βCome forth into the light of things let Nature be your teacherβ
β William Wordsworth
βI have transformed myself in the zero of form and have fished myself out of the rubbishy slough of academic artβ
β Kazimir Malevich
βSunshine 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 weatherβ
β John Ruskin
βThe best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.β
β Helen Keller
βLive quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before youβ
β Paramahansa Yogananda
βColor does not add a pleasant quality to design it reinforces itβ
β Pierre Bonnard
βI took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart I am I am I amβ
β Sylvia Plath
βThe purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the mostβ
βThe wound is the place where the light enters youβ
βOne must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.β
β Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
βWhen 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.β
β R. Buckminster Fuller
βIn all affairs its a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for grantedβ
β Bertrand Russell
βOne of the great beauties of architecture is that each time it is like life starting all over againβ
β Renzo Piano
βFashions fade style is eternalβ
β Yves Saint Laurent
βBeauty 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 musicβ
β Plotinus
βArt washes away from the soul the dust of everyday lifeβ
βI want to make things that are fun to look atβ
β Alexander Calder
βI have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tasteβ
β Marcel Duchamp
βIf I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vainβ
β Emily Dickinson
βArt can become a physical resource that mediates between the ecologist and the industrialistβ
β Robert Smithson
βPersonal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.β
β Aristotle
βYour first ten thousand photographs are your worstβ
β Henri Cartier-Bresson
βThe thief left it behind the moon at my windowβ
β Ryokan
βArt is a guarantee of sanityβ
β Louise Bourgeois
βBefore enlightenment chop wood carry water after enlightenment chop wood carry waterβ
β Zen Proverb
βThere is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.β
β John Kenneth Galbraith
βThe mind that is not baffled is not employedβ
βWe do not see things as they are we see them as we areβ
β Anais Nin
βThe beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soulβ
β Audrey Hepburn
βTo err is human to forgive divineβ
β Alexander Pope
βI exist as I am that is enoughβ
βBeauty lies in the eyes of the beholderβ
β Plato
βWhen 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 wrongβ
β Buckminster Fuller
βSeeing comes before words the child looks and recognizes before it can speakβ
β John Berger
βColor in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energeticβ
β Gaudi
βAn original is a creation motivated by desire any reproduction is motivated by necessityβ
β Man Ray
βMany paths lead from the foot of the mountain but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moonβ
β Ikkyu
βArt grows out of each particular situation and I believe that artists are better off working with whatever their environment throws upβ
β El Anatsui
βArt is a way of knowing what it is we actually believeβ
β Ruth Asawa
βI wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own beingβ
β Hafiz
βI found I could say things with color and shapes that I had no words forβ
βBeauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.β
β Unknown
βEvery child is an artist the problem is how to remain an artist once we grow upβ
βThere are no rules that is how art is born how breakthroughs happenβ
β Helen Frankenthaler
βColor is the keyboard the eyes are the harmonies the soul is the piano with many stringsβ
β Wassily Kandinsky
βI have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetryβ
β John Cage
βArt should be something you can touch and it should be something aliveβ
β Niki de Saint Phalle
βAll 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 truthβ
β James Baldwin
βLiterature is the most agreeable way of ignoring lifeβ
β Fernando Pessoa
βHave nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautifulβ
β William Morris
βThe 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 dayβ
β Italo Calvino
βThe butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enoughβ
β Rabindranath Tagore
βLet my thoughts come to you when I am gone like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silenceβ
βIf a path to the better there be it begins with a full look at the worstβ
β Thomas Hardy
βA thing of beauty is a joy for ever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.β
β John Keats
βThe pain passes but the beauty remainsβ
β Pierre-Auguste Renoir
βI paint flowers so they will not dieβ
βThe world is charged with the grandeur of Godβ
β Gerard Manley Hopkins
βBeauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.β
βEverything has beauty but not everyone sees itβ
β Confucius
βIn all my works light is an important controlling factorβ
β Tadao Ando
βThe painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares forβ
β Lucian Freud
βEvery day is a journey and the journey itself is homeβ
β Matsuo Basho
βEverything is art everything is politicsβ
β Ai Weiwei
βThe flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.β
βIf we opened people up we would find landscapesβ
β Agnes Varda
βI try to apply colors like words that shape poems like notes that shape musicβ
β Joan Miro
βThe world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharperβ
β W.B. Yeats
βA thing of beauty is a joy foreverβ
βHave no fear of perfection you will never reach itβ
β Salvador Dali
βI dont think about art when I work I try to think about lifeβ
β Jean-Michel Basquiat
βBeauty awakens the soul to act.β
β Dante Alighieri
βEvery good painter paints what he isβ
β Jackson Pollock
βFrom the withered tree, a flower blooms.β
β Zeami Motokiyo
βThe world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles only by a spiritual journeyβ
βToo lazy to be ambitious I let the world take care of itselfβ
βA dream you dream alone is only a dream a dream you dream together is realityβ
β Yoko Ono
βBeauty begins the moment you decide to be yourselfβ
β Coco Chanel
βIf you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovelyβ
β Roald Dahl
βArt is the highest form of hopeβ
β Gerhard Richter
βI who leave the world and turn away from it even to me the moon is a friendβ
β Saigyo
βGood architecture lets nature inβ
β Marcel Breuer
βBeauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.β
β David Hume
βBeing creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be doneβ
β Anni Albers
βLife is art art is life I never separate itβ
βYour engagement with your surroundings is crucial what you see is what you areβ
β Olafur Eliasson
βArt is a kind of illnessβ
β Giacomo Puccini
βThe day is coming when a single carrot freshly observed will set off a revolutionβ
β Paul Cezanne
βThe most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysteriousβ
βThe beauty of the world has two edges one of laughter one of anguish cutting the heart asunderβ
βIf I could say it in words there would be no reason to paintβ
β Edward Hopper
βSimplicity is complexity resolvedβ
β Brancusi
βNothing lasts nothing is finished and nothing is perfectβ
β Wabi Sabi Proverb
βI feel that art has a powerful role to play in shaping the consciousness of a societyβ
β Shirin Neshat
βArt cannot be modern art is primordially eternalβ
β Egon Schiele
βArt has to move you and design does not unless its a good design for a busβ
β David Hockney
βIf heaven had granted me five more years I could have become a real painterβ
β Katsushika Hokusai
βI am not what I am I am what I do with my handsβ
βSomeone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness it took me years to understand that this too was a giftβ
βI started painting because I had nothing else to do and then it became my lifeβ
β Yoshitomo Nara
βWhere there is ruin there is hope for a treasureβ
βThe soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.β
β Auguste Rodin
βChange your life today do not gamble on the future act now without delayβ
β Simone de Beauvoir
βThere is no must in art because art is freeβ
βThe pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.β
βNature does not hurry yet everything is accomplishedβ
β Lao Tzu
βDesign is not for philosophy its for lifeβ
β Issey Miyake
βBeauty is how you feel inside and it reflects in your eyesβ
β Sophia Loren
βThe beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.β
βArt is not what you see but what you make others seeβ
β Degas
βFashion should be a form of escapism and not a form of imprisonmentβ
β Alexander McQueen
βSimplicity is the ultimate sophisticationβ
β Leonardo da Vinci
βThings are not difficult to make what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make themβ
βBeauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.β
βMusic is the space between the notesβ
β Claude Debussy
βHeaven is under our feet as well as over our headsβ
βI who have arrived in heaven I survey the panorama of the cosmos from the edge of the universeβ
β Yayoi Kusama
βAutumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flowerβ
β Albert Camus
βI am large I contain multitudesβ
βSpring passes and one remembers ones innocenceβ
βWhat makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a wellβ
βBeauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.β
βIf the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship he would keep it in port foreverβ
β Thomas Aquinas
βNo object is so beautiful that under certain conditions it will not look uglyβ
βLove of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.β
βWhen I know your soul I will paint your eyesβ
β Amedeo Modigliani
βEven the darkest night will end and the sun will riseβ
β Victor Hugo
βThere is a crack in everything that is how the light gets inβ
β Leonard Cohen
βIf a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in musicβ
β Gustav Mahler
βWhen you reach the top of the mountain keep climbingβ
βIn every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeksβ
β Ansel Adams
βDwell on the beauty of life watch the stars and see yourself running with themβ
β Marcus Aurelius
βIf 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.β
β Eleonora Duse
βIn this world we walk on the roof of hell gazing at flowersβ
β Issa
βWhere there is nothing everything is possible where there is architecture nothing else is possibleβ
β Rem Koolhaas
βArt is not about creating something perfect its about expressing something trueβ
β Takeshi Kitano
βIf you want a place to rest cold Mountain is goodβ
β Han Shan
βWhat is beautiful is good and who is good will soon also be beautifulβ
β Sappho
βDwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.β
βWhy shouldnt art be pretty there are enough unpleasant things in the worldβ
βI believe that architecture today needs to reflect on the tasks and possibilities which are inherently its ownβ
β Peter Zumthor
βTo look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.β
βAs an architect you design for the present with an awareness of the past for a future which is essentially unknownβ
β Norman Foster
βI saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him freeβ
βI do not produce the work the encounter doesβ
β Lee Ufan
βAn old silent pond a frog jumps into the pond splash silence againβ
βGreat art picks up where nature endsβ
β Marc Chagall
βIf you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.β
β Vincent van Gogh
βStudy nature love nature stay close to nature it will never fail youβ
β Frank Lloyd Wright
βI think most artists create out of despair the very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outsideβ
β Louise Nevelson
βThe flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.β
βBeauty is not all about just nice loveliness like beauty is about more rounded substantial becomingβ
β John O Donohue
βThere are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects itβ
β Edith Wharton
βNo medicine cures what happiness cannotβ
β Gabriel Garcia Marquez
βCurves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazilβ
β Oscar Niemeyer
βLet the beauty we love be what we do there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the groundβ
βThere is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.β
βPerception is the medium through which states of being unfold as visual sensationβ
β Bridget Riley
βMy goal is to erase architectureβ
β Kengo Kuma
βWe delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone throughβ
β Maya Angelou
βIn three words I can sum up everything I learned about life it goes onβ
β Robert Frost
βThe camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a cameraβ
β Dorothea Lange
βArt is the response of mans creative soul to the call of the realβ
βIt is not down in any map true places never areβ
β Herman Melville
βWhat would life be if we had no courage to attempt anythingβ
βThe work of art is a scream of freedomβ
β Christo
βIn this world nothing is certain people and things are always changingβ
β Murasaki Shikibu
βBeauty is not in the face beauty is a light in the heartβ
β Khalil Gibran
βThe camera should be used for a recording of life for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itselfβ
β Edward Weston
βDrawing is a way of seeing how I thinkβ
β Richard Serra
βTo be an artist is to believe in lifeβ
β Henry Moore
βEverything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.β
βFlowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul intoβ
β Henry Ward Beecher
βIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficultβ
β Seneca
βBeauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirrorβ
βAcknowledge the beauty within you and it will be reflected in everything you seeβ
β Eckhart Tolle
βI dream of painting and then I paint my dreamβ
βLight is the origin of all beingβ
βSpace is made by the artist or architect it is not found and packagedβ
β Donald Judd
βWherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.β
β Anthony J. D'Angelo
βThink of all the beauty still left around you and be happyβ
β Anne Frank
βThe object of art is not to reproduce reality but to create a reality of the same intensityβ
β Alberto Giacometti
βFor small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through loveβ
β Carl Sagan
βDeserve your dreamβ
β Octavio Paz
βGod is in the detailsβ
β Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
βColors blind the eye sounds deafen the earβ
βIn the mountain twilight I lean alone against the pineβ
β Wang Wei
βNever lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.β
β Charles Kingsley
βThe earth has music for those who listen.β
β William Shakespeare
βFor us there is only the trying the rest is not our businessβ
β T.S. Eliot
βHappiness is the absence of the striving for happinessβ
β Zhuangzi
βAll works no matter what or by whom painted are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles unless they are painted after lifeβ
β Caravaggio
β John Muir
βIf 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.β
βWabi-sabi nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.β
βArt is born from life and returns to lifeβ
β Bill Viola
βLet everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going no feeling is finalβ
βEveryone is an artistβ
β Joseph Beuys
βEarth is crammed with heaven and every common bush afire with Godβ
β Elizabeth Barrett Browning
βI am interested only in expressing basic human emotions tragedy ecstasy doom and so onβ
β Mark Rothko
βYou can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from comingβ
βColor is my daylong obsession joy and tormentβ
β Monet
βWrite it on your heart that every day is the best day in the yearβ
βThe sublime is not about what you can see but about what you cannot seeβ
β Anish Kapoor
βSomeday 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 fireβ
β Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
βThere are always flowers for those who want to see themβ
β Henri Matisse
βWalking into the wind the mountains never moveβ
β Santoka Taneda
βArchitecture is basically a container of something and I hope they will enjoy not so much the container as the contentβ
β Kenzo Tange
βThose who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lastsβ
β Rachel Carson
βEverything has its beauty but not everyone sees itβ
β Andy Warhol
βThe true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily lifeβ
βWhen I think of art I think of beauty beauty is the mystery of lifeβ
βAnd now let us welcome the new year full of things that have never beenβ
βI 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 thinkβ
β Zaha Hadid
βTake an object do something to it do something else to itβ
β Jasper Johns
βThe moon tonight over the old capital reminds me of autumn pastβ
β Du Fu
βWorks of art are of an infinite solitude and no means of approach is so useless as criticismβ
βThe secret of life is to have a task something you devote your entire life toβ
βSitting quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itselfβ
βBeauty is not caused it isβ
βHe who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.β
β John Burroughs
β Edgar Degas
βI rarely draw what I see I draw what I feel in my bodyβ
β Barbara Hepworth
βEverything is sculpture any material any idea without hindrance born into spaceβ
β Isamu Noguchi
βTo create ones own world takes courageβ
βArt does not show people what to do yet engaging with a good work of art can connect you to your sensesβ
βThere are some things you learn best in calm and some in stormβ
β Willa Cather
βI must have flowers always and alwaysβ
β Claude Monet
βNobody sees a flower really it is so small we havent time and to see takes timeβ
βBeauty is the promise of happiness.β
β Stendhal
βArt is either plagiarism or revolutionβ
β Paul Gauguin
βBeauty is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possibleβ
β Simone Weil
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