Paul Valery Quotes

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed by the concept of 'art'. What one person considers to be 'art' is often not 'art' to another. 'Beautiful' and 'ugly' are old-fashioned concepts that are seldom applied these days; perhaps justifiably, who knows? Something repulsive, which gives you a moral hangover, and hurts your ears or eyes, may well be art. Only 'kitsch' is not art - we're all agreed about that. Indeed, but what is 'kitsch'? If only I knew!

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

Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

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

I love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

Art is all in the details.

If something is done without objectifying, it can be beautiful.

Big forms fascinate me.

I want to show beautiful things and share them with everyone.

Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable.

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.

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

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

A beautiful dress can be as exciting as a poem.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.

For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be pretty.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.