William Shenstone Quotes

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?

If I had to name my greatest value in life, it would be beauty.

Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

Beautiful things make people happy.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

I think beauty can be everywhere.

A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest.

The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

To love beauty is to see light.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

I love to look at beauty.

Beauty surrounds us.

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

I think there is beauty in everything.