St. Lucia Quotes

The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

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 can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them.

When you see or hear something beautiful, it's like that thing is transmitting a kind of energy, and if that energy helped create the work, the only thing I can do is play it when I finally show the work.

I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.

I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.

I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

I couldn't recommend more that people put themselves in a situation where they can see a lot of work that they admire, and for free.

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.

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

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

Apple, of all the global tech companies, was the one that understood why artists make things.

I was always a design junkie.

Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

Me and music. Music was always my first love. It was my first love for sure. And still is a huge part of my life.

I could never before say that I loved color or that I understood color. But Oscar de la Renta opened up a side of my brain.

We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence.

Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating the seriousness of existence and the complexities of the real life, extinguishing idleness in an entertaining fashion, and, where there is nothing good to be achieved, filling the place of vice better than vice itself.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty.