Joseph Addison Quotes

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

I'm certainly not in the business of making anything or anyone seem avant-garde. I make them feel beautiful.

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

I don't think I'm an artist or that I'm doing anything superintellectual. What's important to me is to get a visceral reaction from people, for them to want that coat because they think it's beautiful.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

Never has there been a close study of how necessary to a man are the experiences which we clumsily call aesthetic

If buying art is to matter to us deeply, then it has to engage with our emotions and bring something to what one might as well, and with no supernatural associations whatsoever, call our souls.

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul.

It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.

Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens to be associated with the sight of some human being, the transference of love is made possible, at any rate in an illusory manner. But it is all the beauty of the world, it is universal beauty, for which we yearn.

The essence of all beauty, I call love.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

The soul loves all things beautiful and deep.

People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

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.

He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was.