Andre Breton Quotes

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

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

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.

Art must take reality by surprise.

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

Beautiful jewelry, a beautiful room - that's what museums are - a beautiful painting, a beautiful face, it makes you feel good to look at, and that's a beautiful thing.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

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

I saw David Lynch's 'The Elephant Man' when I was 15. I was completely bowled over. I found it so beautiful, strange and mesmerizing that I went back to the cinema every night for a week to see it.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.

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

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

I've always photographed beauty, but I've never been beautiful myself.

To me, an intellectual is a person who is primarily interested in ideas. What I am is an aesthete, a person who is primarily interested in beauty. That's why I write about art.

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

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

If you're a model, you're paid to be a muse.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Life and art are inseparable.