Claude Debussy Quotes

Only the beautiful can acknowledge all that is beautiful, and only the ugly can acknowledge all that is ugly as being beautiful. Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

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

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.

Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.

I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.

The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.

And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

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

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.

Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in the works of nature or art.

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.

The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it.

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and beautiful, and who are therefore aliens in this popular culture.

The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake.

That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest, loving, and unselfish attention to our impressions of it.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

Has any psychological experiment yielded a more delightful suggestion than this one: that there is a part of the mind without ambition or information, which nonetheless is expert on what is beautiful?

Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.

One man’s “ugly” is another man’s “beautiful.