Quotes about Beauty
Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?
- CS Lewis
The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.
- Hillary Clinton
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.
- John F. Kennedy
No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
- Marcus Aurelius
Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.
- Henry David Thoreau
Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.
- CS Lewis
Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.
- Ellen Glasgow
I believe that art has incredible power.
- Gloria Steinem
Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.
- Henry David Thoreau
Art to be art must soothe.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
- Wendell Berry