Monty Don Quotes

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.

Beauty is a combination of qualities. I don't think one can deny that certain people or things feel aesthetically pleasing. But without an equally pleasing being behind that form, there is no beauty there.

While almost all men feel an attraction drawing them to society, few are attracted strongly to Nature. In their reaction to Naturemen appear to me for the most part, notwithstanding their arts, lower than the animals. It is not often a beautiful relation, as in the case of the animals. How little appreciation of the beauty of the landscape there is among us! We have to be told that the Greeks called the world Kosmos, Beauty, or Order, but we do not see clearly why they did so, and we esteem it at best only a curious philological fact.

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Don't forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy Skies.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.

Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently.

Beauty can be seen in all things.

Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom, golden in the green grass, This life can be. Common as a dandelion-blossom, beautiful in the clean grass, not beautiful Because common, beautiful because beautiful, Noble because common, because free.

Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse. This applies even more to what it commonly called beautiful: natural objects, for example, or works of art. True beauty has no need of anything beyond itself.

Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in the works of nature or art.

Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved.

If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.

Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.

Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course, if the spectator be without the last, the whole will present but a pitiful appearance, and in that case, the sun is merely so many miles in diameter, the trees are good for fuel, the flowers are classified by stamens, and the water is simply wet.

Everything is beautiful in its own way.