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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

— Tom Stoppard

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

— Laurie Anderson

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

— Gustave Courbet

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

— John Fogerty

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

— Felix Mendelssohn

What is really beautiful must always be true.

— Stendhal

I had always wanted to expand to beauty, but I knew I wanted to be able to translate my design aesthetic in an authentic way.

— Charlotte Ronson

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