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“I regret I no longer have the years of youth needed to create a beautiful series of views of this place, which would in any case be rather difficult to paint due to the monuments, which require a good draughtsmanship and long stays in the city, like Ziem used to do in the past.”
Eugène Boudin (1824–1898) first seen 1893 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Boudin from Venice, c. 1893-94; as cited in 'Venice, The Grand Canal', by Anne-Marie Bergeret-Gourbin, Museo Thyssen
“The journalist is beautiful in the manner of people who spend an immense amount of money on personal maintenance. She has professionally refined pores and a four-hundred-dollar haircut, impeccable makeup and tastefully polished nails. When she smiles, Arthur is distracted by the unnatural whiteness of her teeth, although he’s been in Hollywood for years and should be used to it by now.”
Emily St. John Mandel (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s possible that no one who didn’t grow up in a small place can understand how beautiful this is, how the anonymity of city life feels like freedom.”
Emily St. John Mandel (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She is beautiful in a way that makes people forget what they were going to say when they look at her.”
Emily St. John Mandel (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How glad I was to paint that for the soldiers it is very beautiful, how much respect and even love for art there is in human beings, in spite of everything, and who would have thought that my style, which seemed so modern and incomprehensible to critics and public at rotten exhibitions in the cities, would now be able to speak and convey something to men to whom I make a gift of it.”
Erich Heckel (1883–1970) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to , from Flanders, at Christmas 1915; as quoted by , in Expressionism, ; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 62
“Aristotle would... by no means admit that mathematics was divorced from aesthetic; he could conceive, he said, of nothing more beautiful than the objects of mathematics.”
Thomas Little Heath (1861–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You start with the [in 3 dimensions], which is the simplest thing after the ... with the wave of a hand, you can construct two beautiful objects: the and its dual, the . ...[This] was first discovered by the ...virus.”
Michael Atiyah (1929–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Nigerian woman is smart, beautiful, fashionable, driven, purposeful and has the capacity to take on the world without fear, that is not a tool you leave at home when you are building leadership”
Ibukun Awosika (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As a multi-racial and culturally diverse country, it has become a habit and an obligation for each of us to take this opportunity (Christmas Eve) to strengthen friendship between the people by saying beautiful words to them.”
Anwar Ibrahim (born 1947) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anwar Ibrahim (2022) cited in: "Anwar's maiden 'short-yet-sweet' Christmas message as PM" in Focus Malaysia, 24 December 2022.
“I wonder– didn’t the Creator really do injustice? With a power to defeat everyone without any battle, children are busy at play with the most beautiful moments of their life. Once they grow conscious of it, those moments will have gone away never to return to them.”
Suman Pokhrel (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing beautiful survives the mob.”
Pierce Brown (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They did not talk or want to talk. It was as if they were afraid to talk for fear of spoiling something beautiful. But Anne had never felt so near Katherine Brooke before. By some magic of its own the winter night had brought them together . . . almost together but not quite.”
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942) said by 1942 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Inside every adult was a child, or so it is said. Professor Petra Mayer was different. Inside Petra Mayer was an impossibly beautiful, barefoot adolescent who wouldn’t have been seen dead giving her inner child the time of day.”
Jon Courtenay Grimwood (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Look at these beautiful souls, rid of their demons and cured of their sinful urges. Can’t you tell they’ve been saved? I can.”
Milo Yiannopoulos (born 1984) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: summer 2020 per LifeSite interview
“I think that anyone who will take the trouble to consider the matter carefully will arrive at the same conclusion as I have, that art owes its origin to Nature herself, that this beautiful creation the world supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.”
Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) said by 1574 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Looking back, I can now see that Hood is part of a small but interesting body of lesbian novels of loss and bereavement (by people like Sarah Schulman, Marion Douglas, Sarah Von Arsdale, Carol Anshaw) written in the 1990s. We were catching up with the boys, perhaps; gay men really took the lead in writing honest and beautiful books about mourning.”
Emma Donoghue (born 1969) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: interview in Irish women writers speak out by Caitriona Moloney & Helen Thompson (2003)
“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”
Frederick Buechner (1926–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“North from the beautiful islands, North from the headlands and highlands, The long sea-wall, The white ships flee with the swallow; The day-beams follow and follow, Glitter and fall.”
Louise Imogen Guiney (1861–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’ve been through hell and back, and I’m grateful for every scar, I look at the woman I was in my 20s and I see a young lady growing into confidence but intent on pleasing everyone around her. I now feel so much more beautiful, so much sexier, so much more interesting. And so much more powerful.”
Beyoncé (born 1981) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Beyoncé Talks About Accepting the Way Her Body Wanted to Be Time (August 6, 2018).
“In the present world, the most beautiful thing is a victim.”
Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to love everyone', I thought, almost tearfully. If you stare at the sky, it changes little by little. Gradually it turns bluish. [..] I had never seen anything as beautiful as the translucent leaves and grass. Gently, I reached out to the touch of the grass.”
Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most beautiful creed is the one that bursts from your lips in the darkness, in sacrifice, in pain, in the supreme effort of an infallible will for good; it is the one that, like a bolt of lightning, pierces the darkness of your soul; it is the one that, in the flash of the storm, lifts you up and leads you to God.”
Padre Pio (1887–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here, finally, is the return of the month of beautiful Mommy. (357, 1995)”
Padre Pio (1887–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Painting is the most beautiful lie.”
Kees van Dongen (1877–1968) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in: Modern Dutch painting: an introduction, Netherlands Information Service, (1960), p. 26
“Different men are moved or left cold by lines according to the difference in their natures. What moves you is beautiful to you.”
Robert Henri (1865–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[...] I learned from those evening recitals that music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”
Pat Conroy (1945–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is what's beautiful about staying in a club or hotel: you're invisible, as is your neighbour.”
Amit Chaudhuri (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have beautiful twin nieces who are fifteen and live in Lagos. If they had been born a hundred years ago they would have been taken away and killed. Because it was our culture, it was our culture to kill twins.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 1977) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: We Should All Be Feminists - April 12, 2013
“I loved King Kong with Fay Wray. That was one of my favorite pictures. I admired Fay. I thought Fay Wray was so beautiful. I remember later I went to a party and she was there and I sat at her feet and said, 'You were my favorite actress', and I told her how much I worshiped her.”
Peggy Moran (1918–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People are the most important things in this life. Treat them as something precious because that is exactly what they are. Just like our beautiful Planet, we are all insignificant compared to the vastness of the Universe. We are all essentially equal. We are not alone and isolated: when you hurt someone, you hurt yourself; when you help someone, you help yourself.”
Marcos Pontes (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yet every hair on the body is numbered. And in truth, every day is the beautiful day, the last day.”
A. A. Attanasio (born 1951) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A.A. Attanasio. Centuries. 1997. p.310
“Uniqueness is what makes you the most beautiful.”
Lea Michele (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yesterday I visited Rotterdam for a while.. .It is a beautiful city. Always turbulent, dirty and picturesque, especially the vest and the harbor-neighborhoods. For the newer city I don't care at all.”
George Hendrik Breitner (1857–1923) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Breitner's letter to A. P. van Stolk, The Hague, 8 Febr. 1882; as cited in Breitner en Parijs' – master-thesis 9928758], by Jacobine Wieringa, Faculty of Humanities Theses, Utrecht, (translation from the orig…
“Yesterday it was divinely beautiful [at Scheveningen beach]. These barges lay in dense rows against the slope [of the beach], and between them one walked as between a fancy-built city and from above between all those tarred hulls coal-black, gray, green and white, a deep blue sky. (translation from the original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek)”
George Hendrik Breitner (1857–1923) first seen 1883 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Breitner's letter to A.P. van Stolk, nr. 49, Den Haag 17 Dec. 1883; in the RKD-Archive, The Hague; as cited in the master-thesis Van Gogh en Breitner in Den Haag, Helewise Berger, University of Utrecht, The Netherlan…
“Everything delicate & beautiful, from Surrealism to Breakdancing, ends up as fodder for McDeath's ads; 15 minutes later, all the magic has been sucked out, & the art itself dead as a dried locust.”
Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some say an army on horseback, some say on foot, and some say ships are the most beautiful things on this black earth, but I say it is whatever you love.”
Stanley Lombardo (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When Muhammad Quasim came to the temple whose tower had been thrown down, he found 700 beautiful females under the protection of Buddha "who were of course, made slaves." The temple was probably a Buddhist female Vihara.”
Swami Shraddhanand (1856–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Indeed, the policy of the Muslim invaders in India ‘seems to have been a conscious systematic destruction of everything that was beautiful, holy, refined (to Indians),’ concludes Danielou.”
Alain Daniélou (1907–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alain Danielou: Histoire de l' Inde , as quoted in M.A. Khan Islamic Jihad: A legacy of forced conversion, imperialism and slavery (2011)
“The absolute superiority of India over the West in philosophy; poetry from the Mahabharata, containing the Bhagavad-Gita, “perhaps the most beautiful work of the literature of the world".”
Hermann von Keyserling (1880–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“India has produced the profoundest metaphysics that we know of … the absolute superiority of India over the West in philosophy; poetry from the Mahabharata, containing the Bhagavad Gita, perhaps the most beautiful work of the literature of the world.”
Hermann von Keyserling (1880–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: source: The Case for India, Will Durant. Quoted from Gewali, Salil (2013). Great Minds on India. New Delhi: Penguin Random House.
“It has been raining for a whole month and I lie in bed in the morning like one drunk or ill, refusing to get up. Suddenly I hear a chorus of birds announcing a clear day. Quickly I pull aside the curtain, push open the window and see the beautiful sun shining and glistening and the forest looks like having a bath. Ah, is this not happiness?”
Jin Shengtan (1608–1661) said by 1661 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I cannot describe myself except to say that I am either very vain or very beautiful, and that I hope I am the latter, while suspecting I may be the former.”
John C. Wright (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a reason that truth is considered to be a fundamentally different category than the beautiful or even the good. Sometimes, the truth can be ugly indeed, but even the ugliest truth is of intrinsic value.”
Vox Day (born 1968) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Theodore Beale, The Techno-Pedocracy, Vox Popoli, 18 February 2022
“Pursue that which lasts. Live for the Good, the Beautiful, and the True.”
Vox Day (born 1968) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Theodore Beale, God is not an idiot, Vox Popoli, 17 July 2021
“You can see the existence of these beautiful signed languages which are incredibly visual, and they require space, they require space to grow.”
Emilio Insolera (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[M]an... whatever the origin of his soul, if it is pure, noble, and lofty, it is a beautiful soul which dignifies the man endowed with it.”
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–1751) said by 1751 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Pao-yu] could not see why beautiful maidens should marry and become slaves of men who would take them for granted, when they could just as well remain carefree and do nothing but play games and write verses.”
Wang Chi-chen (1899–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cosa bonita, cosa bien hecha, cosa hermosa. (Spanish for, Pretty thing, thing well done, beautiful thing.)”
Ramón Valdés (1924–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They weren't mainstream and beautiful and attractive, visually (the Smiths, the Cure and Depeche Mode). I thought they were different and when I was a teenager I liked the idea that what you told was more important than what you appeared.”
Dolores O'Riordan (1971–2018) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the first records she bought, as quoted in "Looking Back At Cranberries Dolores O'Riordan", in Forbes (15 January 2018)
“This beautiful head [of Valentine Godé-Darel], this whole body, like a Byzantine empress on the mosaics of Ravenna - and this nose, this mouth - and the eyes, they too, those wonderful eyes - all these the worms will eat. And nothing will remain, absolutely nothing!”
Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918) first seen 1873 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Hodler's letter to , c. late 1914; as cited by Anya Silver in: 'Valentine Godé-Darel (1873–1915): Five Paintings by Ferdinand Hodler', April 2013