Simone Weil Quotes

Beauty is like a soul that hovers over the surface of form. Its presence is unmistakable in art or in life.

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms.

Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes coarse and dull if it remains unvisited by images and thoughts that hold the radiance of beauty.

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.

It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some effort. And unfortunately people think of beauty as luxury, beauty as frivolity, ... or extravagance. Beauty is a discipline, beauty is art, is harmony, in the ideological sense and in the theological sense, beauty is God and love made real. And the ultimate reach in this world is beauty.

Music is the fragrance of the universe.

I decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are God's bouquet, and through music we become one.

When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'

Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment, of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

Music and love are the wings of the soul.

Love elevates. Love is what you live for.

Truth is in all, But love is all.

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there.

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

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

I love art. It is uplifting.

Let the beauty we love do what we do.

What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues, illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature's hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God's marvelous firmament!

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.