Raheem DeVaughn Quotes

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same.

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

I think that one of the things that drives me in telling stories, and art in general, is finding the beautiful in a big mass of ugly.

Life and art are inseparable.

Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.

Art is a sense of magic.

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

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.

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