Quotes 261 till 280 of 376.
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The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
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The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.
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The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.
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The Cyrillic and Greek scripts in particular have an alien beauty in their unfamiliar letterforms. Five weights of stroke thickness create subtle variations in light and dark that reflect the emerging and fading of the stars.
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The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.
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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
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The fact is, 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. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
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The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.
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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
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The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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