Pastoral Resources

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you're going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.