Quotes about Beauty

The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A lo of it had to do with things I felt while I played. If only I could feel that sense of total absorption in what I was doing when I was doing other things. It was more than absorption, it was spontaneity, competence, a sense of grace and playfulness, of being in touch with an inexhaustible source of energy and beauty.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

The body is a sacred garment.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

Our Lord God is an artist like unto none.

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.