Quotes about Beauty
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
- Pablo Picasso
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
- George Bernard Shaw
The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
- Nikki Giovanni
The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
- Pope John Paul II
Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.
- Marc Chagall
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
- Olivia Newton-John
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
- Nikki Giovanni
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
- Oscar Wilde
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
- Oscar Wilde
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
- Oscar Wilde