James Russell Lowell Quotes

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

Beauty, my dear Sir, is not so much a quality of the object beheld, as an effect in him who beholds it. If our sight were longer or shorter, or if our constitution were different, what now appears beautiful to us would seem misshapen, and what we now think misshapen we should regard as beautiful. The most beautiful hand seen through the microscope will appear horrible. Some things are beautiful at a distance, but ugly near;

Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

To love beauty is to see light.

I just can't help but see things differently.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.