Quotes by Philosophers - Page 57

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we will not find it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture.
Bertrand Russell
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.
George Santayana
Ask a toad what is beauty? ... a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head a large flat mouth a yellow belly and a brown back.
Voltaire
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
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin
The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
John Ruskin
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its ends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some thoughts always find us young and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty without expression tires.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.
Sir Francis Bacon
Art not only imitates nature but also completes its deficiencies.
Aristotle
Art for art's sake.
Victor Cousin
Art as far as it is able follows nature as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be as it were God's grandchild.
Dante Alighieri
Art is difficult transient is her reward.
Friedrich von Schiller
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
Jean Paul Richter
A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Marshall McLuhan
In any evolutionary process even in the arts the search for novelty becomes corrupting.
Kenneth Boulding
An artist never really finishes his work he merely abandons it.
Paul Valéry
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted everything in fact which masks reality from us in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
Henri Bergson
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which throughout his lifetime he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.
Albert Camus
An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
George Santayana
Art is a delayed echo.
George Santayana
The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.
Eric Hoffer
If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
George Santayana
Theatre takes place all the time wherever one is and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.
John Cage
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
Susan Sontag
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Bertrand Russell
Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
G.K. Chesterton
Fine art is that in which the hand the head and the heart of man go together.
John Ruskin
When we quarrel how we wish we had been blameless.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise men argue causes and fools decide them.
Anacharsis
In a true tragedy both parties must be right.
Georg W. F. Hegel
Weakness on both sides is as we know the motto of all quarrels.
Voltaire
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in.
Lao Tzu
No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
John Ruskin
The flowering of geometry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
Socrates
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.
Jean Paul
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
Plato
Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once I
Friedrich Nietzsche
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
When I hear music I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau
The best most beautiful and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
Jonathan Edwards
God respects me when I work but loves me when I sing.
Rabindranath Tagore
If you can walk you can dance. Zimbabwe saying Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle
Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A work of art has an author and yet when it is perfect it has something which is anonymous about it.
Simone Weil
All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
John Ruskin
The artist has a special task and duty the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.
Lewis Mumford
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All philosophy in two words - sustain and abstain.
Epictetus
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes but few have the gift of penetration.
Machiavelli