Quotes about Beauty

When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion, then I go out and paint the stars.

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

If one loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

Illusions may fade, but the sublime remains.