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Quotes about aesthetics
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. (Sand George)
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. (Sand George)
If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful House; and if I were further asked to name the production next in importance and the thing next to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful Book. To enjoy good houses and good books in self-respect and decent comfort, seems to me to be the pleasurable end towards which all societies of human beings ought now to struggle. (Sand George)
And he continued to stare at her, afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which, no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral. (Sand George)
Exuberance is beauty. (Sand George)
Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph. (Sand George)
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. (Sand George)
Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. (Sand George)
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed? (Sand George)
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come. (Sand George)
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. (Sand George)
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. (Sand George)
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. (Sand George)
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. (Sand George)
And she was fair as is the rose in May. (Sand George)
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. (Sand George)
It is very fashionable for good-looking ladies to say how hard it is to be beautiful, but that’s not true. There are times when it depresses and bothers me to see just how easy things are made for a beautiful woman. (Sand George)
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