John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.

We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you

Beauty can inspire miracles.

Beauty would save the world.

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Art matters.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!

Must you know that yours will be the “better” picture before you pick up the brush and paint? Can it not simply be another picture? Another expression of beauty? Must a rose be “better” than an iris in order to justify it’s existence? I tell you this: you are all flowers in the Garden of the Gods.

The foundation of beauty is the body.

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

Beauty is a combination of qualities. I don't think one can deny that certain people or things feel aesthetically pleasing. But without an equally pleasing being behind that form, there is no beauty there.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

Beauty without expression is boring.

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

For many artists and critics, beauty is a discredited idea. It denotes the saccharine sylvan scenes and cheesy melodies that appealed to Granny.

A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness.