Style and Appearance: appearance, creativity, authenticity.
Intelligent Beauty as Others See It
Beauty is a characteristic of a person, place, object or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology and culture. The subjective experience of beauty often involves the interpretation of some entity as being in harmony with nature, which may lead to feelings of attraction and emotional well-being. Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Albert Camus, Notebooks
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson , The Poet
Beauty without expression tires.
Ralph Waldo Emerson , The Conduct of Life
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
Ralph Waldo Emerson,The Conduct of Life
Care about the beings you care about in gorgeous and surprising ways. Color outside the lines. Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. This is your last chance.
Anne Herbert in Handy tips on how to behave at the death of the world in Whole Earth Review (Spring 1995)
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.
W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
Stendhal, On Love
Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.
Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
If you search for beauty you will never lose sight of it.
Alfred Kin
The night sky is a beautiful thing no matter where you are..... Look at it and tell me that you do not just forget about every woe you have ever had. Gaze at the starry night and you forget about everything, get lost in the lights, and focus on the night sky. For it is truly beautiful, because in it you get lost and can think of simply nothing else. If you ever think something is beautiful do not compare it to a supermodel or a manmade piece of art, but compare it to the firmament, God's art. If you can find yourself getting lost and forgetting everything as when you look at the night sky then you have indeed found something truly beautiful.
Bob Hiteshew
Beauty more than bitterness, makes the heart break
Sara Teasdale
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
Sight is a big part of our existence, but it shouldn't make us blind to other things.
Moira Doolan, on beauty and aesthetics.
The gift which you possess ... is not an art, but, as I was just saying, an inspiration; there is a divinity moving you... For all good poets, epic as well as lyric, compose their beautiful poems not by art, but because they are inspired and possessed...
Socrates in Plato's Ion.
But what if man had eyes to see the true beauty--the divine beauty, I mean, pure and clear and unalloyed, not clogged with the pollutions of mortality and all the colours and vanities of human life--thither looking, and holding converse with the true beauty simple and divine?
Plato's Symposium
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
Voltaire
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Countess of Blessington
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John Keats
Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.
Franz Kafka
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Proverb
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
Al Bernstein
Beauty is in the imagination of the beholder.
David Newell
Beauty is the evidence of why we are here.
Adrian D. Canfield
Beauty will save the world.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word in the world.
Christian Morgenstern
Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of the earth's greenings. Now,Think.
Hildegard von Bingen
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The moment one give close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Henry Miller
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Through light and joy is the world opened up, revealed for what it is: ineffable beauty, unending creation.
Henry Miller
To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms -- this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
Albert Einstein
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
Navajo song
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Chinese proverb
Smash, smash the old laws habitual beauty becomes narcotic eventually; it can be rediscovered, but only dialectically, by contrast, by the creation of new, brutally shocking beauty, beauty that seems barbarism at first. And the creation of such new beauty is the first step for anyone who would a god, and not a slave of dead gods. It is in the war between great seeking and great boredom that new beauty is born.
Robert Anton Wilson
All life is beautiful. All humans are beautiful. Only behavior makes one ugly.
Jeffrey C. Keene II
Beauty is in the eye of the BEERHOLDER
WC Fields
A girl of sixteen deserves no credit for her looks. Beauty at sixty is her souls doing.
Anonymous
Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.
