Charles Baudelaire Quotes

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.

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.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

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.

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

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.

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

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

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Music inspires contemplation, dreams, and the imagination.

Most people can't see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine.

Any great art is meant to illuminate the human condition.

I have something inside of me that every day tells me that nature and beauty is the soul, the meaning, of our life. And I also love Hollywood and cinema.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.