beauty Quotes

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

When a coil is operated with currents of very high frequency, beautiful brush effects may be produced, even if the coil be of comparatively small dimensions. The experimenter may vary them in many ways, and, if it were nothing else, they afford a pleasing sight.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.