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★ Beauty & Beautiful

In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.  Only artistic excellence is incorruptible.  Pleasure cannot be bargained down.  And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real.  Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’

 

 

To me Van Gogh is the finest painter of them all; certainly the most popular great painter of all time.  The most beloved; his command of colour, the most magnificent.  He transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty.  Pain is easy to portray, but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstasy and joy and magnificence of our world ... No-one had ever done it before.  Perhaps no-one ever will again.  To my mind that strange wild man who roamed the fields of Provence was not only the world’s greatest artist, but also one of the greatest men who ever lived.  Richard Curtis, Dr Black in Vincent and the Doctor

 

 

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

 

 

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  Mid-18th century proverb

 

 

Every day I discover more and more beautiful things.  It’s enough to drive one mad.  I have such a desire to do everything my head is bursting with it.  Claude Monet

 

 

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.  Pierre-Auguste Renoir 

 

 

William Morris ... a complete homage to calligraphy ... The Iliad ... Astounding.  All gold leaf ... Almost unbelievable ... It almost takes your breath away this detail – it’s all about beauty.  Andrew Lloyd Webber, Perspectives, ITV 2011   

 

 

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.  Camille Pissarro

 

 

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.  Camille Pissarro

 

 

Beauty moves me.  Nothing else.  Francis Bacon

 

 

There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life; for let the form of an object be what it may – light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.  John Constable

 

 

Gentlemen, here’s to beauty.  Star Trek s3e5: Is There In Truth No Beauty? Kirk’s toast

 

 

They insisted we call our members key-holders.  And Peter casually looked around and said, ‘Humm, beauty is in the eye of the key-holder.’  Victor Lownes, executive Playboy Club New York, re Peter Cook

 

 

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.  Kinky Friedman

 

 

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.  John Ruskin, Stones of Venice

 

 

Whenever I look or travel in England or abroad, I see that men, wherever they can reach, destroy all beauty.  John Ruskin, Modern Painters V 

 

 

I always say beauty is only sin deep.  Hector Hugh Munro, Reginald, 1904

 

 

The beauty is not, as fond men misdeem,

An outward show of things, that only seem.  Edmund Spenser, An Hymn in Honour of Beauty, 1596

 

 

Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated.  It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common every-day beauty.  John Muir

 

 

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.  Places to play in and pray in.  When Nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.  This natural beauty hunger is made manifest in our beautiful national parks.  Nature’s sublime wonderlands.  John Muir  

 

 

But beauty vanishes; beauty passes;

However rare – rare it be;  Walter de la Mare, Epitaph, 1912

 

 

Beauty whether moral or natural is felt more properly than perceived.  David Hume

 

 

Accuracy is in every case advantageous to beauty.  And just reasoning to delicate sentiment.  In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.  David Hume

 

 

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.  David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays

 

 

This shuddering before the beautiful, this incredible fact that a discovery motivated by a search after the beautiful in mathematics should find its exact replica in Nature persuades me to say that beauty is that to which the human mind responds at its deepest and most profound.  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 1910-1995

 

 

I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep.  That’s deep enough.  What do you want – an adorable pancreas?  Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines, 1958

 

 

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring;

But beauty faded has no second spring.  Ambrose Philips, The First Pastoral, 1708

 

 

Beauty is but a flower

Which wrinkles will devour.  Thomas Nashe, Summer’s Last Will and Testament, 1600

 

 

Beauty is momentary in the mind –

The fitful tracing of a portal;

But in the flesh it is immortal.

The body dies; the body’s beauty lives.  Wallace Stevens, Peter Quince at the Clavier, 1923

 

 

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me.  Julia Margaret Cameron

 

 

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.  Confucius

  

 

Love of beauty is taste.  The creation of beauty is art.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Would you like to look younger, fresher and more radiant?  Erase your wrinkles?  Volumise and shine your hair?  Professor Leslie Regan does.  She has just turned fifty.  And she wants a makeover with a difference: one based on cold hard scientific fact.  Horizon: Professor Regan’s Beauty Parlour, BBC 2007

 

 

She’s beautiful and therefore to be wooed;

She is a woman, therefore to be won.  William Shakespeare, I Henry VI V iii 78

 

 

Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud –

But, God knows, thy share thereof is small;

Tis virtue that doth make them most admired.  William Shakespeare, Richard Duke of York I iv 129-131, Richard

 

 

And truth no agent; for beauty is a witch

Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.  William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing II i 169-170, Claudio to Don John

 

 

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.  William Shakespeare, As You Like It I iii 109, Rosalind to Celia

 

 

Make use of time; let not advantage slip,

Beauty within itself should not be used.  William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis 129-130

 

 

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade

The eyes of men without an orator.  William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece l29

 

 

From fairest creatures we desire increase,

That thereby beauty’s rose might never die.  William Shakespeare, Sonnet I

 

 

When forty winters shall besiege thy brow

And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field.  William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2

 

 

O!  How much more doth beauty beauteous seem

By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!  William Shakespeare, Sonnet 54

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