#beauty

Rare is the union of beauty and purity. ↗

— Juvenal

#purity #rare #union

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#anyone #beauty #grows #keeps #never

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#anyone #beauty #because #grows #happy

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. ↗

— Louis Kahn

#affinities #beauty #emerges #integration #love

A beautiful white silk scarf was around her neck, tucked below the fur collar. Her lips were well painted into a bright red cupid’s bow. Cute as hell I always told myself, with a tinge of regret. She had a steady girlfriend. ↗

— Paul A. Myers

#left-bank #paris #roaring- #beauty

...but what they don't understand is that I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up into my pores during the day, and at night-in the moments before I pass off to sleep-ideas explode into my head like fireworks. There is no greater joy than the burst of solution to a problem. ↗

— Daniel Keyes

#flowers-for-algernon #beauty

Never let anyone tell you, your Black is not beautiful. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#beauty

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#does #forgive #look #looks #merciless

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. ↗

— John Keats

#beauty #blame #critic #effect #him

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. ↗