#art

The last void stone I’d worn was a beautiful black stone caught in vines of copper and silver. It looked like a necklace, a piece of art, really. This thing was spud-ugly. ↗

— Devon Monk

#art

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#beauty #art

The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them, and whenever it appears they get so angry and bewildered that they always use two stupid expressions--one is that the work of art is grossly unintelligible; the other, that the work of art is grossly immoral. What they mean by these words seems to me to be this. When they say a work is grossly unintelligible, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is new; when they describe a work as grossly immoral, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is true. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#attitudes #beauty #creativity #opinions #public

I'm pretty much looking for beauty all the time. It just seems like some days the light is better to see it. ↗

— Melodie Ramone

#author #hope #inspiration #art

Things are not beautiful when their touched,but beautiful in the heart. ↗

— Hellen Keller

#beauty

My heart does not desire what my eyes does not admire. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#beauty #desire #heart #women #beauty

May you always look as beautiful as this last time I saw you. ↗

— Owen Jones

#beauty

Art for art’s sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of the true, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for. ↗

— George Sand

#beauty #faith #art

You see, to me, it doesn't really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly don't give a damn about who belongs to either political party. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#behind #belongs #damn #either #elected

He found himself weeping. Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before himself a masterpiece. True art was more than beauty; it was more than technique. It was not just imitation. It was boldness, it was contrast, it was subtlety. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#art