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