Arthur Symons Quotes

I like the things around me to be beautiful and slightly dreamy, with a feeling of worldliness.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

'Flower' is about the sublime.

There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

A beautiful dress can be as exciting as a poem.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower.

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.

The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

I adore pretty things & witty words.

Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in great architecture, great painting and great literature. Only in the atmosphere thus engendered floats that impalpable dust of ideas which is the real culture. A colony of ants or bees will never create a Parthenon.

Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.

Why then we should drop into poetry.

One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.

There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.

All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in nature, like a flower or a snowflake whose vegetable or earthly origins are an inseparable part of their beauty.

Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form - all these are the work of Lucifer.

To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.

Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.

Fill a space in a beautiful way.

The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.

a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.