Octavio Paz Quotes

C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful.

Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some effort. And unfortunately people think of beauty as luxury, beauty as frivolity, ... or extravagance. Beauty is a discipline, beauty is art, is harmony, in the ideological sense and in the theological sense, beauty is God and love made real. And the ultimate reach in this world is beauty.

It can be a work by Mondrian, a piece of music by Schönberg or Mozart, a painting by Leonardo, Barnett Newman or also Jackson Pollock. That's beautiful to me. But also nature. A person can be beautiful as well. And beauty is also defined as 'untouched'. Indeed, that's an ideal: that we humans are untouched and therefore beautiful.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.

The main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

There is a saying in Bali: "We have no art. We do everything as beautifully as possible." This reflects my philosophy of practice. I try to remember daily what a gift it is to have the privilege of living in this wondrous world.

After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.

I am inspired by so much. I am inspired by women, of course - beautiful women. I am also inspired by not so beautiful things in the world.

Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.

Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently.

Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

Beautiful things spoil nothing.

There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world.

There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression of some need, and man's needs are ignoble and disgusting like his own poor and infirm nature. The most useful place in a house is the water-closet.