Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

The word 'superficial' comes with such negative connotations, suggesting that whatever it is applied to has no value. But the emotional pull of beauty for its own sake cannot be underestimated.

Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend against its sheer power to move, its rhetorical force?

We have received a heritage of craftsmanship, of aesthetics, of taste, of identity. Our brands have the beauty to preserve and perpetuate it.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

I can't destroy things so beautiful." "Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something.

I am not minimizing emotions. Emotions are an important part of life.

I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we're losing rather than a celebration of what we have.

And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

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

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.

Beauty compels us; reason merely cajoles.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.