beauty

"Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table , the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 — a whole com…"

"To find beauty in ugliness is the province of the poet."

"I think a beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly."

"Many of my Hamptstead friends may remember this 'young lady' at the entrance to the village. Her fate was distressing, for it is scarcely too much to say that she died of a broken heart. I made this d…"

"Everything has a beauty peculiar to itself; but if you put one instead of another, the most beautiful becomes ugly, because it is not in its proper place."

"There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body; but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty."

"The first human corpse I saw had housed my grandmother’s soul. I expected a serene mien. I expected to find her sleeping. I expected a transforming beauty, something painted by Millais. Instead, the o…"

"Beauty crosses every boundary, traverses every series, and so manifests the God who transcends every division."

"This elegant generalization is mathematically very appealing; but physics means facing facts. You should take up case by case."

"The elegant simplicity of the three per cents."

"Beauty may be skin-deep, but horror goes all the way down to the desiccated bone beneath."

"It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive."

"During one of my annual visits to the great Fred Winter's yard I said to him, 'Good God, Fred, your horses look magnificent. Beautifully fit.' Of course they do, you twit,' he said. 'They don't sit up…"

"This is from my granny. She was a beautiful, spiritual person. She always used to say: "Doesn't matter how big the fucker is. They all have a neck." Another thing she used to say was: "Never get invol…"

"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."

"Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to come from nowhere at all except his own subjective musing…"

"I think as my career has gone on, my friends and I have been generating more and more beautiful or poignant moments. That’s not to say that everything we do is genius. But along the way there’s a lot …"

"Most of all, the twentieth century will be remembered as the time when we first began to understand what our address was. The “big, beautiful, blue, wet ball” of recent years is one way to say it. But…"

"10. “When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, 11. “And seest among the captives a beautiful woma…"

"With the grace of Prophet Muhammed and Allah, almost all Hindus in Calicut are converted to Islam. Only a few are still not converted on the borders of Cochin State. I am determined to convert them al…"