I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music. We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.Charlie Haden​​Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.    

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We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.

 

 

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Christopher Morley 

    

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

Christopher Wren

      

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

Claude Debussy 

                                                                                                                 

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.  

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If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.   

Conor Oberst

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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

Dame Edith Evans

     

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.    

Dante Alighieri 

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That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from the treatment of it can be jazz.

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Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

Dave Grohl 

                 

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.     

David Allan Coe

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

        

 

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. 

David Hume                                                                                                                 ​

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

David Remnick

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I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

Don DeLillo

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Douglas Horton

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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

Douglas Sirk

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Edmund Burke

         

                                 

 

But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony.​​​​

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One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.
Edward Witten

 

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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.
Ella R. Bloor

Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
Eugene Ionesco

 

Beauty is less important than quality.
Eugene Ormandy

Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs
Francesca da Rimini 

 

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. 

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Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but if it light well, it makes virtue shine and vice blush. 

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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Francis Bacon

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Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.
Frank Miller

                           

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
Frank Norris

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Franz Kafka

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.
Fritz Todt

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston Bachelard

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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George Bancroft

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George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? 

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Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

George Edward Moore

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Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

George Henry Lewes

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The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

George Sand

 

I mean the beauty of being a writer is it's not like being a swimmer. When they were talking about our Olympic swimmers and they'd say, 'Oh she's so old,' and she's all of 25 or something. So the beauty for a writer is that you can keep doing it right into your dotage, and I hope to be able to keep doing it as long as I can get away with it, yeah.

Geraldine Brooks 

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Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

 

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Gian Carlo Menotti 

 

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

Godfrey Harold Hardy

 

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy.

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Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

Gustav Mahler

       

                        

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

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First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture. 

Gustav Stickley

                                  

 

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

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Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. 

Gustave Courbet

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

H. G. Wells

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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

Hannah Arendt

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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can. 

Helen Gurley Brown

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There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty. 

Helena Christensen

 

 

 

 

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Henry David Thoreau

It’s the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.​

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It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Henry Drummond

     

In art economy is always beauty.

Henry James

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Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. 

Herbert Gold

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.

Howard Carter

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I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion.

Isaac Albeniz

 

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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Jack London

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Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

James Hillman

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Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold. 

James Randolph Adams

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I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

James Thomson

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After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of 'spirit fingers' to chase our cares and woes into somebody else's backyard. 

James Wolcott                                                                                                                

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Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway! 

Jamie Zawinski 

    

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.     

Jane Asher 

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Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings. 

Janelle Monae

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Jean Rostand

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No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

Jean Toomer 

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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion. 

Jean-Luc Godard

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Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.

Luis Cernuda

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Leo Tolstoy

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. 

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Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off the belief it inspires is what counts. 

Philip Roth

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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.  

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A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.       

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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Richard Steele

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Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.

Robert Bridges

      

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.

Robert Caro

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Walk on a rainbow trail walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail. 

Robert Motherwell  

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My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

Roberto Benigni 

    

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order. 

Rowan D. Williams

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The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers. 

Roy Ayers 

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The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

Ruth St. Denis

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Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break. 

 

    

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?  

Sara Teasdale

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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. 

Sarah Bernhardt 

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Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.  

Scott Weiland

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Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

Serge Gainsbourg

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Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

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I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.

Studs Terkel

    

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.

Susan Sontag

     

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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect. 

Tadao Ando​

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​​Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. 

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Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Martin Luther

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Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.  

Paul Getty

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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Walter Hagen

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Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

William Blake