Evelyn Underhill Quotes

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

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

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.

I've always photographed beauty, but I've never been beautiful myself.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Beauty has long since disappeared. It has slipped beneath the surface of the noise, the noise of words, sunk deep as Atlantis. The only thing left of it is the word, whose meaning loses clarity from year to year.

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.

As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part of the realm of art as it is of technology; the fusion of thinking and feeling.

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

Beauty is its own excuse.

In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.