Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

Katrina Kaif

For me, physical beauty is never the reason for attraction to anyone.

Richard Baker

The encouraging performance of our health and beauty businesses in a tough retail climate reflects our renewed focus and investment in these growing markets,

William Blake

The head Sublime, the heart Pathos, the genitals Beauty, the hands & feet Proportion.

Kate Winslet

The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.

Proverbs

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Shelby Lynne

a guy who's playing for the beauty of the song, not his own ego. These are incredible players.

Octavio Paz

A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cotton cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful.

James Allen

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Ben Nicholson

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Mary Lambert

Yes, I would loved to have just sustained myself through my art, but less than one in a billion musicians gets that life. So rather than being like, 'I'm an exception!', like a moron, I thought I'd get a real job.

Charles Bukowski

escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you.

Charles Bukowski

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

Charles Bukowski

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Charles Bukowski

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Charles Bukowski

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.

Charles Bukowski

Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

Thomas Cole

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Anthony Storr

Imagination flourishes best in solitude.

Bertrand Russell

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

Linda Chandler

Live in your imagination, not in your past.

Jesse Ventura

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge is limited; but imagination encircles the world.

John Dos Passos

Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.

John Dewey

Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously, but are set in motion by the demands set up by current social occupations.

Joan Miro

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.