“I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.”
— Ossie Davis
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As we grow old, the beauty steals
“As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Search for beauty without features, something deeper
“Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.”
— Francesca da Rimini
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Far from creating a new formalism, what
“Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.”
— Max Bill
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That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our
“That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.”
— Ken Thompson
Author: Ken Thompson
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Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered
“Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.”
— Martha Beck
Author: Martha Beck
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is
“Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Not longer loved or fostered by religion,
“Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.”
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
Author: Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as
“Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.”
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Art can never exist without naked beauty
“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.”
— William Blake
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Who knows better than artists how much
“Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?”
— Tony Kushner
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