Beauty

“To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.”

“In a world without beauty [...] the good also loses its power of attraction.”

“No escriba cosas hermosas acerca de mí ni aquellas que puedan ser apreciaciones subjetivas.”

“You can have a beautiful song in any genre.”

“Upiększyłem miasto Łódź wspaniałymi gmachami i doprowadziłem to miasto do rzędu porządnych fabrycznych miast w Królestwie.”

“Nowadays, art should not be based on technique, nor on beauty, nor comfort.”

“Do the dots shine as brightly as the stars? When I close my eyes, I see the rivers and mountains of my country more clearly than the rainbows.”

“As a painter, I conceive that this must have been the great secret of the perfection to which the Greek and Roman sculptors brought their works.”

“J'ai besoin d'admirer.”

“The most beautiful statement that I ever heard about dying was, ‘It is finished.’”

“If someone asks what the heart of Yamato is, I would answer: the mountain cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun.”

“This is my favorite time of the day—so beautiful and so quiet.”

“Whistler ... was his favourite painter, and with him Puvis de Chavannes.”

““It is no small thing to achieve a painting that is decorative.””

“If you want to be remembered, you’re better not to be beautiful.”

“What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things.”

“All change is hard at first. It’s messy in the middle and it’s gorgeous at the end.”

“The Otira Gorge ... forms a tract of the most enchanting scenery in the Colony, not to be equalled by anything of a similar kind I have yet seen in any part of the world.”

“From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.”

“Life is a gorgeous robe, crawling with fleas.”