#beau

Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question. ↗

— James Joyce

#artist #beautiful #creation #object #question

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Beautiful is always strange. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#beautiful #strange #art

Andrei, did you like the opera?" "Not particularly." "Andrei, do you see what you're missing?" "I don't think I do, Kira. It's all rather silly. And useless." "Can't you enjoy things that are useless, merely because they are beautiful?" "No. But I enjoyed it." "The music?" "No. The way you listened to it. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#beauty #music #perception #art

Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations. ↗

— Paul Lockhart

#math #mathematics #art

I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget about gravity for an hour. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#beautiful-chaos #creative-process #creativity #heartbreak #inspiration

This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the heart of man and is that precious fruit which resists the year and tear of time, which unites generations and makes them share things in admiration. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#beauty #truth #art

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#beauty #bias #bourgeois #capitalism #creativity

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#beauty #courage #honor #ignorance #money