Arca Quotes

I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of nothing more beautiful than the hawthorn, for I wish to remain sincere and because I know that the beauty of a painting does not depend on the things represented in it. I shall not collect images of hawthorn. I do not venerate hawthorn, I go to see and smell it.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

If I think something is beautiful, there must be somebody out there who will agree with me.

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

Everything I choose to photograph, I think is beautiful.

Artists make our lives livable and enjoyable.

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.

I am a beautiful flower that is blossoming more and more each day. I delight in my world, and my world delights in me.

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

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

It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.

Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used to do not bother us, and for that reason we are inclined to call them beautiful. Frequently, when a new or unfamiliar work is accepted as beautiful on its first hearing, its fundamental quality is one that tends to put the mind to sleep.

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

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.

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

There is no man on earth who can give a final judgment on what the most beautiful shape may be. Only God knows.

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.