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Beauty is a
harmonious relation between something in our nature and the
quality of the object which delights us.
-- Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist,
Religious Philosopher
Art is an
invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of
philosophers. What we call art is a game.
-- Octavio Paz
1914-, Mexican Poet, Essayist
The flowers
anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no
second spring.
-- Ambrose Philips
1674-1749, British Poet,
Politician
I have a
horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the
beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
-- Pablo Picasso
1881-1973, Spanish Artist
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Whatever is
beautiful is beautiful by necessity.
-- Pindar
BC 518?-18438, Greek Poet
Beauty of
style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on
simplicity.
-- Plato
BC 427?-347?, Greek
Philosopher
Being is
desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is
loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when
we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to
another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in
self-ignorance, we are ugly.
-- Plotinus
Withdraw into
yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful
yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made
beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes
this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has
grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is
excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to
all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty
and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall
shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue,
until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the
stainless shrine
-- Plotinus
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