"Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game."
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"I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful."
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"Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire."
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"Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself."
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"My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness."
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"From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out to the tip that like an amber thorn begins you, small, superlative being, you are a miracle, and you blaze"
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"The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love."
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"I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me."
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"Beauty is the gift of God"
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"Life is full of beauty. Notice it."
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"Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven."
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"Beautiful thoughts build a beautiful soul. ...There's always something beautiful to be experienced wherever you are."
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"Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new."
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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."
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"To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light."
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"Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others."
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"The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing."
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"Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm."
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"Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do."
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"All little girls should be told they are pretty."
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