Anjelica Huston Quotes

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming.

Make your physical surroundings as beautiful as possible.

I like the idea of being warm and secure. That's what home should be. That you have a sense of warmth, security, love, and you love the things around you and surround yourself with beauty.

An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.

Never has there been a close study of how necessary to a man are the experiences which we clumsily call aesthetic

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

More than anything, praying just helps me to concentrate and let go of things that don't matter in that moment. It gives me peace knowing I'm in good hands.

Sometimes it's a beautiful face, sometimes it's a place. I am inspired by everything.

There is beauty in everything.

It is on these (20min) walks that my best ideas come to me. It is while walking that difficult clarity emerges. It is while walking that I experience a sense of well-being and connection, and it is in walking that I live most prayerfully.

Beautiful things spoil nothing.

If a man walks in beauty, he will create, and when he creates, he prospers.

Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.

The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.

Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.

I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of ‘art’ (p. 213).

One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite--energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not.