“Can the beautiful be sad? Is beauty inseparable from the ephemeral and hence from mourning? Or else is the beautiful object the one that tirelessly returns following destructions and wars in order to bear witness that there is survival after death, that immortality is possible?”
Julia Kristeva, born on June 24, 1941, is a renowned French philosopher. Her academic research focuses on psychoanalysis, feminism, and semiotics, having a profound impact on contemporary culture. more
“Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us.”
“As beauty lies in eyes of beholder, struggling lies in reaching further.”
“Beauty: it curves, curves are beauty. Shapely goddesses, Venus, Juno: curves the world admires.”