Conor Oberst Quotes

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

If I had to name my greatest value in life, it would be beauty.

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.

I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly change with the light. They are sort of patient.

As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

I really prize and love great painting.

I think my life has been transformed by the ability to take things that exist in the world and look at them more closely. I think that's what art does at its best: it allows us to slow down.

I simply liked looking at the world around us.

I live near a beautiful park, and when I walk around it, the beauty of it can take your breath away. It makes you realize there is something bigger, certainly bigger than me.

'Flower' is about the sublime.

The moments that I feel the most imbued with a sense of awe are always the moments when I am outdoors. I can't help but feel a certain sense of wonder - I become almost filled with it.