Beautiful Quotes - Page 5

• My garden is the most beautiful thing in the world.

  Josephine de Beauharnais

  Garden, First Impression, World

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• It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.

  Anne Bronte

  Heart, People, Mind

  Anne Bronte (2012). “Agnes Grey”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Funny Inspirational, Powerful

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• Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

  Dean Koontz

  Blessed, Thinking, People

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.267, Bantam

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• A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

  N.Y. Times, 1 Dec. 1963

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• If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.253, Vintage

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• Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

  Lou Dorfsman

  Life, Lonely, Art

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• Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Experience

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• You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is...unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far.

  Alice Neel

  Inspirational, Life, Failure

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• Fail, fail again, fail better.

  Samuel Beckett

  Inspirational, Life, Failure

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• Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

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• To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

  Jasper Johns

  Inspirational, Life, Giving Up

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• He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.

  Paul Klee

  Inspirational, Life, Humble

  Paul Klee, Ernst-Gerhard Güse, Richard Verdi (1991). “Paul Klee: dialogue with nature”, Prestel Pub

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• The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Inspirational, Life, Artist

  Osbert Sitwell (1950). “Noble essences: a book of characters”

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• Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

  August Strindberg

  Inspirational, Life, Courage

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• To see far is one thing, going there is another.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Life, Art, Work

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• We do not write as we want, but as we can.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

  W. Somerset Maugham (1941). “the Gentleman in the Parlour”

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• The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

  G. H. Hardy

  Beauty, Math, Ideas

  A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)

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• Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved.

  L. Frank Baum

  May, Beautiful Things, Ifs

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)”, p.1952, Delphi Classics

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• Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.

  Phineas Fletcher

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 31-33, Sicelides, act II, scene 4, 1922.

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• Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Awful, Sides, Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.251, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

  John Ashbery

  May, Impression, Discarded

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Care, I Care, Ifs

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• Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.

  John Milton

  Coins, Bliss, Currents

  'Comus' (1637) l. 739

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• It's important for all types of women to know that you don't have to fit a prototype of what one person thinks is beautiful in order to be beautiful or feel beautiful.... People think, Sexy, big breasts, curvy body, no cellulite. It's not that. Take the girl at the beach with the cellulite legs, wearing her bathing suit the way she likes it, walking with a certain air, comfortable with herself. That woman is sexy. Then you see the perfect girl who's really thin, tugging at her bathing suit, wondering how her hair looks. That's not sexy.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Girl, Sexy, Beach

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