Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful.

I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!

Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse. This applies even more to what it commonly called beautiful: natural objects, for example, or works of art. True beauty has no need of anything beyond itself.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.

Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.

Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?

Look, whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it … I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make my career on beauty.

Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

When an artist paints a picture he does not want you to consider his personality as represented in that picture - he wants you to look at the beauty of that picture. No one cares who has painted the picture as long as it is beautiful.

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

Beauty is everywhere and it comes in all different forms. Many times I don't find a size zero girl amazing, I find her really shockingly thin or small, and I think that beauty comes in all different forms. Beauty is about how you feel. There are plenty of people who are amazing to look at who are super beautiful, and then there are plenty of people who are easy to look at who are not beautiful at all, they open their mouth or they have an attitude or they are cruel, and they look hideous suddenly.

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

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

If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.

Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.

Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young.

The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.

Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.