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Truthfully we cannot do without beauty; for without the
desire for the beautiful, our lives would seemingly be
quite uninteresting and uninspiring. Art would be dry and
rigid, design overly utilitarian and what would happen to
all of the supermodels? We should all have the moment in
the street where we take time to evaluate what is truly
beautiful to us and not what we have been told is beautiful.
Let us open up beauty and try to find the potential
within it.-- SEAN BURKHOLDER
This is the spirit that Beauty must ever induce, wonderment and a delicious trouble, longing and love and a trembling that is all delight. -- PLOTINUS
Keep in your homes all that you know to be useful and all that you believe to be beautiful. -- WILLIAM MORRIS
What we need is more awe. -- Dustin Kurtz
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof. Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you. -- LEONARD COHEN
I don't know if you're beautiful because I love you too much. --MAGNETIC FIELDS
Beauty is human gold. --BYRON ADDISON
He is sustained in the misery of the present by the hope of a golden future.--ALBERT VON KELLER on the benefits of the artist's inclinations and interests
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. --VOLTAIRE
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see. --GEORGE W. RUSSELL
Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things. --TERTULLIAN
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. --NINON DE L'ENCLOS
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. --LEO TOLSTOY
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. --CHRISTOPHER MORELY
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. --SIMONE WEIL
I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness. --KARL LAGERFELD
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. --CONFUCIOUS
Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world. --FLORENZ ZIEGFELD
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. --MARIE STOPES
Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to. --PABLO PICASSO
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty. --JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. --ALBERT EINSTEIN
When I'm 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. --RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Beauty and sadness always go together.Nature thought beauty too rich to go forthUpon the earth without a meet alloy. --GEORGE MACDONALD
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty. --PHIL OCHS
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. RUMI
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- My goal is to investigate what beauty is & distinguish it from what it is not; acknowledge its power & elevate its status in human experience from pleasure to necessity; harness delight as a way to organize life and immerse myself in what I love. I invite your comments and questions, let's hear 'em!
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Quotes
When scientists speak of beauty in these contexts they generally employ the word loosely, equivocally, and sometimes even in a contradictory way. One can hardly blame them; is there any subject more difficult to discuss with precision? -- ROBERT P. CREASE
desire for the beautiful, our lives would seemingly be
quite uninteresting and uninspiring. Art would be dry and
rigid, design overly utilitarian and what would happen to
all of the supermodels? We should all have the moment in
the street where we take time to evaluate what is truly
beautiful to us and not what we have been told is beautiful.
Let us open up beauty and try to find the potential
within it.-- SEAN BURKHOLDER
This is the spirit that Beauty must ever induce, wonderment and a delicious trouble, longing and love and a trembling that is all delight. -- PLOTINUS
Keep in your homes all that you know to be useful and all that you believe to be beautiful. -- WILLIAM MORRIS
What we need is more awe. -- Dustin Kurtz
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof. Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you. -- LEONARD COHEN
I don't know if you're beautiful because I love you too much. --MAGNETIC FIELDS
Beauty is human gold. --BYRON ADDISON
He is sustained in the misery of the present by the hope of a golden future.--ALBERT VON KELLER on the benefits of the artist's inclinations and interests
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. --VOLTAIRE
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see. --GEORGE W. RUSSELL
Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things. --TERTULLIAN
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. --NINON DE L'ENCLOS
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. --LEO TOLSTOY
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. --CHRISTOPHER MORELY
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. --SIMONE WEIL
I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness. --KARL LAGERFELD
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. --CONFUCIOUS
Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world. --FLORENZ ZIEGFELD
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. --MARIE STOPES
Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to. --PABLO PICASSO
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty. --JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. --ALBERT EINSTEIN
When I'm 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. --RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Beauty and sadness always go together.Nature thought beauty too rich to go forthUpon the earth without a meet alloy. --GEORGE MACDONALD
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty. --PHIL OCHS
Beauty...
- seeks replication (scarry)
- can inspire beauty (plato, gendler)
reading list
- ALBERS Interaction of Color
- ANTONELLI Humble Masterpieces: Everyday Marvels of Design
- BALL Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color
- BERGER Ways of Seeing
- CASTLE Finding Your Bipolar Muse: How to Master Depressive Droughts and Manic Floods and Access Your Creative Power
- CHANDRASEKHAR Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science
- CSIKSZENTMIHALYI Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
- DE BOTTON Architecture of Happiness
- ECO History of Beauty
- ETCOFF Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty
- GENDLER Notes on the Need for Beauty
- GILBERT-ROLFE Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime
- GUMBRECHT In Praise of Athletic Beauty
- HAMPL Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime
- HARRIS Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism
- HESKETT Design: A Very Short Introduction
- HOFSTAEDTER & KUHNS Philosophies of Art and Beauty
- JAMES Truth about Beauty: Transform Your Looks and Your Life from the Inside Out
- KIMMELMAN The Accidental Masterpiece
- MAYNARD Aesthetics (Oxford Readers)
- NEHAMAS Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art
- PATCHETT Truth and Beauty: A Friendship
- SARTWELL Six Names of Beauty
- SCARRY On Beauty and Being Just
- SMITH On Beauty
- SONTAG On Photgraphy
- STEWART Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry
- WITTKOWER Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists
- ZIV Breeding Between the Lines: Why Interracial People are Healthier and More Attractive
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2 comments:
be free pumpernikel, be free! Let the glory fly through your open zipper and may the adrenaline addiction be your private stash of virtue.....sing that song for the grace of humanity, and never forget spread your wings
"...and never forget TO spread your wings"
(proofreading will always be my undoing)....
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