Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

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

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

What is art but a way of seeing?

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

Art is a sense of magic.

I like to aestheticize every possible thing that can be aestheticized.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

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

Beauty really has such a wide field of interpretation. I guess that's why it's forever fascinating.

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.

Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.