Robin Van Persie Quotes

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.

The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

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

No two persons ever read the same book.

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.

A music serves truth up to you in a really interesting way that allows you to luxuriate in its beauty and, at the same time, to hopefully see yourself in its fragility.

The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond

I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.

To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.