Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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.
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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.
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
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