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.

I am a great lover of art in many forms: paintings objets textiles. I don't have the talent for painting but I have a very good sense of colour a love of visual beauty.

Jordan has a strange haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

Beauty is only skin deep but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want an adorable pancreas?

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life that's beautiful.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration or rather obliterates all consideration.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

Even with or perhaps because of this background I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.

My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident and that helps.

If you get a diagnosis get on a therapy keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today and who instilled in me a sense of wonder always taking us on adventures in the car never telling us the destination.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

You say a new era in art is preparing you sensed it coming continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

In its most limited sense modern art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives is in the best sense of the word Grotesque.

Were I called on to define very briefly the term Art I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation however accurate of what is in Nature entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'