Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes

Nature is beautiful, not because it changes beautifully, but simply because it changes.

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.

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!

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

The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?

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

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.

Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.

Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.

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

I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of ‘art’ (p. 213).

The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that applies to everything.

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

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors

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.

The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion

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.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.