Beauty Quotes and Sayings
I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. ~ Harlan Ellison. Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. ~ Bertrand Russell. When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. ~ Buckminster Fuller. And I’ll dance with you in Vienna,/ I’ll be wearing a river’s disguise./ The hyacinth wild on my shoulder/ My mouth on the dew of your thighs./ And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook,/ With the photographs there and the moss./ And I’ll yield to the flood of your beauty,/ My cheap violin and my cross. ~ Leonard Cohen. In the final analysis, all architecture reveals the application of human ingenuity to the satisfaction of human needs. And among these needs are not only shelter, warmth and accommodation, but also the needs, felt at every moment in every part of the world in endlessly different ways, for something more profound, evocative and universal, for beauty, for permanence, for immortality. ~ Patrick Nuttgens. Happiness was my fate, my remorse, my worm: my life would always be too large to be dedicated to force and to beauty. ~ Arthur Rimbaud. |
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