Arthur Symons Quotes

The world that she lives in is just magical, one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.

Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.

I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily.

I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.

I'm a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness - beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Beauty is the lover's gift.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.

Deep in every heart slumbers a dream, and the couturier knows it: every woman is a princess.

I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

I think I have a romantic idea of life; I certainly have a romantic outlook. I think. I hope.

Beauty arises out of human inspiration.

I love whimsical things and forests. I'm really into all that.

I am a romantic. I want to cry when I throw out my Christmas tree, and I have a lot of feelings about magic and fantasy.