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“In 1972, from a distance of about 18,000 miles away, an Apollo 17 astronaut took a photo of the Earth that later would be named “The Blue Marble.” That single unprecedented image of an illuminated Earth in full jolted billions into contemplating the beauty and fragility of our tiny home in the dark expanse.”
Guy P. Harrison (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“First, westernisation of Indian youth should stop. The projection of Indian girls as Miss Universe or Miss World is a deep-rooted conspiracy to promote cosmetics in countries like India. Nudity and obscenity cannot be parameters for determining beauty.”
Rajnath Singh (born 1951) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On banning beauty pageants, as quoted in "Westernisation of Indian youth should stop" India Today (1 January 2001)
“The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round, That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 143 (tr. Herman Bicknell, 1875)
“All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.”
Eli Siegel (1902–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I adore my life: it is filled with so much true poetry, fine feelings, things many have no idea about. I despise my life, which, being rich, allowed itself to be crammed into the confines of conventions. Between these two opinions pulsates my soul always longing for beauty and good.”
Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938) first seen 1902 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Lettres à un Inconnu, 1902 (Notebook I, p. 234) - Aux sources de l'expressionnisme. Presentation par Gabrielle Dufour-Kowalska. Klincksieck, 1999. p. 101
“Cruelty, rage, grief — and something others carelessly name evil — can reduce the strange collation of profanity and beauty which makes up each of us to an inanimate lump of decaying meat.”
Nick Drake (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I seek beauty, not character. For me portraiture and statuary are completely opposed to each other.”
Aristide Maillol (1861–1944) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: remark to his biographer Judith Cladel (1939 - 1944); as quoted in Dictionary of artists’ models, Jill Berk Jiminez, Taylor and Francis 2001, p. 550
“O my Lord! If I worship Thee on account of the fear of Hell, burn me in Hell, and if I worship Thee with the hope of Paradise, exclude me from it, but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, then withhold not from me Thine Eternal Beauty.”
Rabia of Basra (710–801) said by 801 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The full African moon poured down its light from the blue sky into the wide, lonely plain. The dry, sandy earth, with its coating of stunted ‘karroo’ bushes a few inches high, the low hills that skirted the plain, the milk-bushes with their long, finger-like leaves, all were touched by a weird and almost oppressive beauty as they lay in the white light.”
Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“in terms of being immigrants, especially from a place like Haiti, when we see — you know, we see the cholera, we see the earthquake. I think people forget that there’s also this wonderful and powerful history of revolt, of resilience, of resistance, and this wonderful art that’s followed in its wake that has this great beauty to offer to the world.”
Edwidge Danticat (born 1969) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: interview with Democracy Now (2010)
“The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance.”
Naomi Wolf (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.”
Naomi Wolf (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her 'beauty.' Her reproductive value, as the 'aesthetic' value of her face and body today, 'came to be seen as a sacred trust, one that she must constantly guard in the interest of her race.'”
Naomi Wolf (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are all tourists in each others’ lives. We all have monuments and ruins, places of strange beauty and forbidden sites chained off and locked securely so that no visitors can get in. And none of us has the guidebook to anyone else, or even the list of most commonly used phrases. We just have to get along the best we can.”
Lisa Goldstein (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...I want to make it clear that the success of a picture, as a picture, does not depend upon topographical interest of the subject, but on the ability of the photographer to convey impressions of beauty or interest by his manner of treating it.”
Arthur Hammond (1880–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do want to make it clear that the success of the picture does not depend entirely upon the beauty of the subject, but mainly upon the manner in which the picture-maker uses his pictorial material.”
Arthur Hammond (1880–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A curved line, as a rule, will convey an impression of beauty more strongly than a straight line; a curve can be vastly more satisfying and pleasing than a tangent.”
Arthur Hammond (1880–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It represents a conscious rejection of the failed experience of the entire boomer generation, one that exalted tackiness above beauty, and sexual freedom above the liturgy of courtship.”
Jeffrey Tucker (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm not for pretending that bad stuff doesn't exist, and a passion for justice and truth is a libertarian trait. But the idea of liberty should also reveal new forms of beauty in the world, astonishing evidence of order without dictate, lovely examples of innovation without planning, and other magical things. Surely these deserve some attention too.”
Jeffrey Tucker (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Truth and beauty ... yield themselves only to whoever surrenders to them—as to a rescuer.”
Vilhelm Ekelund (1880–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sword and the pen Not talking nor quarreling Are our symbols Our glory and covenant And a duty to fulfill it Shake us Our honor Is an honorable cause A raised flag O, your beauty In your eminence Victorious over your enemies My homeland My homeland.”
Ibrahim Tuqan (1905–1941) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mawtini (1934)
“The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.”
Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As a little girl my mother used to take me with her to her fittings with her very expensive seamstress. I was dazzled by the beauty of the fabrics and the whole procedure. I still remember the feel of expensive taffeta.”
Angelique Rockas (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“..the gift of Orthodoxia : The call by the Christ not to be just good moral and ethical beings, which is where the western Churches stop- but to go beyond that , to be 'theanthropic", to reflect the generosity and magnificence and beauty of the Christ.”
Angelique Rockas (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sensitiveness to beauty of the world continues, and efforts to preserve it were also made in the past.”
Marek Żukow-Karczewski (born 1961) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Enchanted by beauty (three forgotten relations), "Aura" 1, 1998-01, p. 17-19.
“We may fill our purses, but we pay a heavy price for it in the loss of picturesqueness and beauty.”
James Nasmyth (1808–1890) said by 1890 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 153 (in 2010 edition)
“According to Nazis, Homo sapiens had already divided into several races, the Aryan race, had the finest qualities ― rationalism, beauty, integrity, diligence... [and] the potential to turn... into superman. Other races... possessing inferior qualities... [i]f allowed to breed... with Aryans... would adulterate... and doom Homo sapiens to extinction.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In one sense freedom is always in crisis, just as beauty is, and honor and truth-all those things which man has made for himself as a garment against the ever-present blasts of the barbarian spirit,”
August Heckscher II (1913–1997) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address, Kenyon College (April 4, 1957)
“Longer than memory we have known that each animal has its power and place, each a skill, virtue, wisdom, innocence — a special access to the structure and flow of the world. Each surpasses ourselves in some way. Together, sacred, they help hold the cosmos together, making it a joy and beauty to behold, but above all a challenge to understand as story, drama, and sacred play.”
Paul Shepard (1925–1996) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Others: How Animals Made Us Human (1996), Island Press, 1997, Part V, p. 173.
“The assignment must fit the kid. That's the beauty of it, Obie." Obie waited a minute or two and couldn't resist asking, "You running out of ideas, Archie?" The great Archie Costello running dry? The possibility was staggering to contemplate. "Just being artistic, Obie. It's an art, you know. Take a kid like this Renault. Special circumstances." He fell silent. "Put him down for the chocolates.”
Robert Cormier (1925–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nature gives beauty, fortune wealth, in vain.”
Edward Fairfax (1580–1635) said by 1635 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nor love consents that beauty's field lie waste.”
Edward Fairfax (1580–1635) said by 1635 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wayward beauty doth not fancy move, A frown forbids, a smile engendereth love.”
Edward Fairfax (1580–1635) said by 1635 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hard is that heart which beauty makes not soft.”
Edward Fairfax (1580–1635) said by 1635 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I sat there agape, looking at the flowers, and thought to myself, There are really good things about human beings. I mean, it's humans who discovered the beauty of flowers, and humans who admire them.”
Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As Europeans, we are, uniquely, at the center of history. Think of the concepts that are now designated “problematic” and associated with whiteness -- power, strength, beauty, agency, accomplishment. Whites do and other groups don’t. For us, it is conquer or die. This is a unique burden for the white man, that our fate is entirely in our hands.”
Richard B. Spencer (born 1978) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 21 November 2016
“I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science.”
Derek Barton (1918–1998) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Derek Barton, Some Reflections on the Present Status of Organic Chemistry, in Science and Human Progress: Addresses at the Celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of the Mellon Institute (1963), 90.
“Does not the beauty of the artist's work lie for us in the accuracy with which his symbols resume innumerable facts of our past emotional experience? ... [A]esthetic judgment... how exactly parallel it is to the scientific judgment.”
Karl Pearson (1857–1936) first seen 1815 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Introductory. Pearson refers the reader to William Wordsworth's preface to the Lyrical Ballads (1815) "General View of Poetry".
“You have made me so rich, oh God, please let me share Your beauty with open hands. My life has become an uninterrupted dialogue with You, oh God, one great dialogue. At night, when I lie in my bed and rest in You, oh God, tears of gratitude run down my face, and that is my prayer.”
Etty Hillesum (1914–1943) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 18 August 1943, p. 640
“The person who misses this adventure of kinship with the beauty that is to be found in nature temples, and fails to make the acquaintance of the creatures that are in those temples, misses so much.”
Flower A. Newhouse (1909–1994) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lecture June 7, 1959 Nature's Eternal Refreshment
“You must appreciate beauty for it to endure [...]”
Pat Conroy (1945–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language.”
Pat Conroy (1945–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the Statue of Liberty emerged from the mists I gazed at it with an awe close to the sublime. It seemed to me to be the embodiment of all the beauty and magnificence with which I had invested America in my dreams. I had been a little bit afraid that America wouldn't be what I had dreamed--and here was a dream come triumphantly true.”
Antonio Moreno (1887–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The spotless maid is like the blooming rose Which on its native stem unsullied grows; Where fencing walls the garden-space surround, Nor swains, nor browsing cattle tread the ground. But if some hand the tender stalk invades, Lost is its beauty, and its colour fades: No more the care of heaven, or garden's boast, And all its praise with youths and maidens lost.”
John Hoole (1727–1803) said by 1803 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not beauty, wealth, or lineage e'er could raise A woman's name (he said) to height of praise, If not in action chaste.”
John Hoole (1727–1803) said by 1803 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She wouldn’t have to work to charm the wardrobe off me. She had that something that goes beyond beauty, beyond style—an aura, a presence. She was the kind of woman who leaves eunuchs weeping and priests cursing their vows.”
“I decided she wouldn’t show. What was in it for her? I was pretty sure she was a gal who didn’t take a deep breath without calculating her return on investment. Such a shame; all that beauty wasted.”
“Everything is contemplated in the mind without meditation. We make a very complicated response. Just to look at a floating branch evokes very complicated objective and nonobjective responses. The artist must slow all this down, mentally. It is this mental experience that makes the representation of beauty possible.”
Agnes Martin (1912–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection.. .My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.”
Agnes Martin (1912–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Minimalists were nonobjective. They just recorded beauty, I guess, without the emotions - or at least without personal emotions. My work is a little more emotional than that.”
Agnes Martin (1912–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source