Hugh Hardy Quotes

To possess taste, one must have some soul.

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in the midst of the utilitarian, humanitarian, dogmatic world of the present day, she keeps on proclaiming the outstanding value of Beauty for the sake of Beauty, through her very conception of Godhead, of religion and of life.

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.

It is the search for beauty...That is what it is. We find ourselves on this earth--gods and men--and we know that it is beautiful. That is one of the few things we understand--beauty; because it is there, in the world, and we can see it all about us. We want beauty. It requires our love. It just does.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

The world will be saved by beauty.

I don't understand beauty.

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums.

You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.

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

The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.

On Furnishing One's Home - Pick your furniture like you pick a wife; it should make you feel comfortable and look nice, but not so nice that if someone walks past it they want to steal it.