#met

We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #beautiful #because #else #i

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#art #creative #feeling #fitness #generality

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#able #art #big #called #century

When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#i #i see #intervene #me #see

I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#awful #directed #done #driver #going

I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#also #counted #i #i think #only

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue. ↗

— William Bennett

#indeed #need #ourselves #remind #sometimes

I think often times when people choose to be part of a charity; it's usually because something is very personal. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#charity #choose #i #i think #often

Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something. ↗

— Shelley Berkley

#does #end #good #infrastructure #investing

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#else #enslavement #extension #freedom #freedom from