"The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us."
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"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly."
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"Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality."
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"All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable."
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"The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking."
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"Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise."
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"Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed."
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"The perception of beauty is a moral test."
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"Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice."
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"The key to education is the experience of beauty."
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"There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty."
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"Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be."
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"Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not"
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"Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone? Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate? Ask why the sunlight not for ever Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain-river, Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown, Why fear and dream and death and birth Cast on the daylight of this earth Such gloom, why man has such a scope For love and hate, despondency and hope?"
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"The good is the beautiful."
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"God ever geometrizes."
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"I remember trying not to disrupt everyone else in the room, fumbling around trying to figure out how to use the medium with a beautiful model disrobed in front of me."
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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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"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."
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"Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires."
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