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American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.
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Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
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An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
An Artist of the Floating World (2009) 119 -
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and enhance your life. Even if the work's made of plasticine.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
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At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
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Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.
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Beauty arises out of human inspiration.
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
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Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.
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