Christopher Morley Quotes

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Beauty does not linger; it only visits. Yet beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm; it calls us to feel, think and act beautifully in the world: to create and live a life that awakens the Beautiful. A life without delight is only half a life.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

Beauty is a combination of qualities. I don't think one can deny that certain people or things feel aesthetically pleasing. But without an equally pleasing being behind that form, there is no beauty there.

I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.

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.

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.

It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.

The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming.

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.

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

I don't think I'm an artist or that I'm doing anything superintellectual. What's important to me is to get a visceral reaction from people, for them to want that coat because they think it's beautiful.

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

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

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul.

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

Never has there been a close study of how necessary to a man are the experiences which we clumsily call aesthetic

If buying art is to matter to us deeply, then it has to engage with our emotions and bring something to what one might as well, and with no supernatural associations whatsoever, call our souls.

There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this.