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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like. -- St. Vincent
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. -- Andy Warhol
Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work. -- Sutton Foster
Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star. -- Barry White
I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion. -- Ian Frazier
One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on. -- Danica McKellar
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less. -- Maya Angelou
Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession! -- Georges Bizet
One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful. -- Edith Wharton
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality -- Daido Moriyama
Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement. -- Dave Hickey
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words. -- Natalie Portman
Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Have you ever learned the beautiful art of letting God take care of you and giving all your thought and strength to pray for others and for the kingdom of God? It will relieve you of a thousand cares. -- A. B. Simpson
That has always been a strength of Haiti: Beyond crisis, it has beautiful art; it has beautiful music. But people have not heard about those as much as they heard about the coups and so forth. I always hope that the people who read me will want to learn more about Haiti. -- Edwidge Danticat
I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. -- Andy Warhol
I grew up hearing everyone tell me 'God loves you'. I would say big deal, God loves everybody. That don't make me special! That just proves that God ain't got no taste. And, I don't think He does. Thank God! Because He takes the junk of our lives and makes the most beautiful art. -- Rich Mullins
I feel like at the end of the day, as entertaining as movies are, when you're part of them in a way, it's this beautiful art form and that's what it feels like for me. I'm not a painter, but I can express myself visually in a way that allows me to artistically create. -- Shailene Woodley
We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered. I think I don't regret a single "excess" of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace. -- Henry James
What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. -- Georges Bizet
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
There are so many awful things in this world, but I wanted readers to share with me the small, beautiful, enjoyable things. Things like cute clothes, beautiful art and pretty flowers; items that are overflowing with beauty. If you just become obsessed with your own problems, you miss these things. When you discover them, you become happy. -- Novala Takemoto
Beautiful old people are works of art. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art. -- Joss Whedon
Art is the most beautiful of all lies. -- Claude Debussy
Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful -- William Shakespeare
God made thee good as thou art beautiful. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Creating something that is universally beautiful. That is art. -- Shu Uemura
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. -- Jean Cocteau
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. -- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. -- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Beautiful and rare Aurora, In the heavens thou art their Flora -- Christopher Pearse Cranch
The most beautiful pieces of art come from the ugliest situations. -- Andy Mineo
Design is an art, creative artist must have a beautiful mind -- Bhupesh B. Patil
The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art. -- Charles Simic
I love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings. -- Celine Dion
It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function. -- Giannina Braschi
Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything. -- Swami Vivekananda
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. -- Oscar Wilde
Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose. -- Gunter Brus
I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art! -- John Keats
Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, and the beautiful in art. -- George Sand
When I see a beautiful piece of art, it inspires me to be creative. -- Laura Prepon
Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful. -- Coco Chanel
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The most beautiful thing about art is that there is no saturation point in creating! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Living together is an art. It's a patient art, it's a beautiful art, it's fascinating. -- Pope Francis
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model... -- Giorgio Vasari
Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful. -- Immanuel Kant
Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.... -- Joel Achenbach
What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art. -- Jon Glaser
Tagore once said, art has to be beautiful. But before that, it has to be truthful. -- Ritwik Ghatak
Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful. -- David Bailey
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. -- Louis Nizer
Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace. -- Karl Kraus
God is beautiful. His beauty demands a response that is shaped that beauty, and that is art. -- Michael Card
This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree. -- Jean-Georges Noverre
It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man. -- Isadora Duncan
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator. -- Olivia Newton-John
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want. -- Andy Warhol
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free. -- Charles Tart
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. -- Horace Walpole
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. -- Oscar Wilde
I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art. -- Nick Flynn
Actually, I tossed it nicely, landed nicely, like airplane. No warning, beautiful. That's the art of throwing racquets. -- Goran Ivanisevic
Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington -- W. Somerset Maugham
In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums. -- Janet Flanner
Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly. -- George MacDonald
I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible. -- Taylor Swift
Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions. -- Fernando Pessoa
Fighting is art and there is nothing more beautiful than the painted canvas of just totally kicking someone's ass. -- Frank Shamrock
Sometimes I think my scars are beautiful, but then I remember not everyone shares the same love of art. -- Piper Payne
When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era. -- Azzedine Alaia
I call my style, "Poetry in Motion." So I'm working on a new art to make fighting even more beautiful. -- Bobby Green
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art. -- Kit Williams
No one can say I married my husband for his money. I married him because he's a beautiful art object. -- Mary Fairfax
Life is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life. -- John Edgar Park
There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private. -- Terry Tempest Williams
Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity. -- Bowie Kuhn
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream. -- George Linley
Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later. -- Mona Simpson
If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God. -- William Wordsworth
I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art. -- Frank Bruno
The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that. -- Jeff Wall
Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art. -- Lynn Coady
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. -- Eduard Hanslick
When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart. -- Waylon Jennings
The Aston Martin is a beautiful car. It's a work of art, I love the interior and the style of the car. -- Adam Carolla
Among the many answers I have found, I believe love is the most beautiful and simple art that reflects the beauty of life. -- Mabel Iam
I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful. -- Carlos Slim
Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care. -- Pierre Soulages
Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art. -- Frederic Chopin
Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it. -- John Ruskin
The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art. -- Joyce Maynard
I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can. -- James Mercer
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time. -- Toni Morrison
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things. -- Elbert Hubbard
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning. -- Stendhal
Science is the Differential Calculus of the mind. Art the Integral Calculus; they may be beautiful when apart, but are greatest only when combined. -- Ronald Ross
The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. -- William C. Bryant
The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. -- William C. Bryant
Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose. -- Ben Hunt
When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time. -- Neal A. Maxwell
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. -- Jean Cocteau
Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking. -- Herman Melville
Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art. -- Mike Curran
I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange. -- Nick Cave
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes. -- David Rockefeller
To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life. -- Isadora Duncan
My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture. -- Carlos Slim
There was something striking about her posture; something about the tilt to her head. She was like a beautiful and lonely piece of art, lovely but unreachable. -- Maggie Stiefvater
The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it. -- Jules de Goncourt

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