The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
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.
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
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