Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

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

Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

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

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

My wife jokes that any time I want to take a picture of her, it has nothing to do with her - it's just because the light is really nice. She's usually right. I definitely am somebody who notices the way the light skips off the floor.

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

Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.

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.

The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?

Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.

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

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.

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

I had seen faces in photographs I might have found beautiful had I known even vaguely in what beauty was supposed to consist. And my father's face, on his death-bolster, had seemed to hint at some form of aesthetics relevant to man. But the faces of the living, all grimace and flush, can they be described as objects?

My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.

As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay.

No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.