“In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.” WorldMindFormArtistOrderBeautyPrinciplesTakenParticularMaterialsPureShadowIdealsTraditionAbsolutesHarmonyMereInspiredBoundsCosmosIdealismDefectsRepresentingPlatonic Author:John Walford
“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.” LifeInspirationalInterestingBeautyStandardsAbsolutesPursuitTrue BeautyStandards Of Beauty Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?” KindReasonSeemsBeautifulFormAcceptingBeautyAbsolutesCausality Author:Plato
“Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality.” IfsWantHumansWellsLongStatesTimeWishImaginationBeautyConditionsGardenLet MeEternityAbsolutesOriginalsMeetingsFulfillmentCollaborationAdamFulfilledSignalsWant UAdam And EveHuman ImaginationTemporality Author:Thomas Moore
“The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.” KnowsLoveWisdomBeautyLoversUniversalAbsolutesTrue LoveLatterDisguiseTheologianSweet Love Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.” ThinkingSaidBlackWhitePerfectBeautyFashionColorAbsolutesHarmonyAbsenceFashionistaPerfect HarmonyBalance And HarmonyColor WhiteColor Black Author:Coco Chanel
“All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.” DoeDifferentFormJusticeEmotionBeautyParticularElementsEternalEternityAbsolutesSurfaceManifestationAbstractionTransitoryEternal BeautyDifferent Beauty Author:Charles Baudelaire