104 quotes found
“No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a womans voice.”
“When you watch Olympic athletes in competition, does your self-esteem plummet? Of course not. On the contrary, you feel wonder and admiration; you're inspired that such exceptional individuals exis...”
“The answer to these questions is tied to the public's attitude about suicide. For many people, suicide is morally reprehensible. It's against their religion, or against their culture, or contrary t...”
“Now I myself, I cheerfully admit, feel that enormity in Kensington Gardens as something quite natural. I feel it so because I have been brought up, so to speak, under its shadow; and stared at the ...”
“Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.”
“The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.”
“I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.”
“More than once have I thought, Why does crime, even when as powerful as Csar, and assured of being beyond punishment, strive always for the appearances of truth, justice, and virtue? Why does it ta...”
“If I beat my grandmother to death to-morrow in the middle of Battersea Park, you may be perfectly certain that people will say everything about it except the simple and fairly obvious fact that it ...”
“The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.”
“An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.”
“What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural.”
“Everything good is good because of the love it contains.”
“In a Fisherian world, animals are slaves to evolutionary fashion, evolving extravagant and arbitrary displays and tastes that are all "meaningless"; they do not involve anything other than perceive...”
“The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.”
“To speak of sparing anything because it is beautiful is to waste ones breath and incur ridicule in the bargain. The aesthetic sense- the power to enjoy through the eye, and the ear, and the imagina...”
“Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic”
“In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.”
“Sylvias inherent appreciation for beauty as both artist and consumer is evident in her journals and letters.she wrote beautifully about clothes. She wrote about them with irony and wit mixed in wit...”
“New clothes left Sylvia reeling with happiness. For Sylvia, a shopping list was a poem. She always shopped alone - it suited her deliberate nature and the artistic joy with which she approached all...”
