Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend against its sheer power to move, its rhetorical force?
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.
There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
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