Wallace Stevens Quotes

It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.

One does not consider style, because style is.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Art is all in the details.

I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.

The French have got taste.

The essence of style is a simple way of saying something complex.

Beauty is like a soul that hovers over the surface of form. Its presence is unmistakable in art or in life.

I doubt Picasso ever painted a picture in an hour, he took his time, looked at every detail and made sure it was perfect.

Beauty is the ability to utilize the tools provided in order to showcase your spirit in order to show your true soul.

Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.

Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.

Forget the cringing selves you sometimes are and remember, instead, the magic essence of your own being that sings even now through your fingertips. That is the reality which you are seeking. Experience it fully.

There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive.

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.

Each character represents a different color on the big palette of what this ultimate painting is going to look like, who your guy is, and just try to be as honest and simple and real as you can possibly be. The outer trappings are incidental - costumes, period, makeup - all of that is rather insignificant at the end of the day.

Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.

If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking.

Your graciousness is what carries you. It isn't how old you are, how young you are, how beautiful you are, or how short your skirt is. What it is, is what comes out of your heart. If you are gracious, you have won the game.

Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.

Soul is not about function; it's about beauty, form, and memory.

Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present.