“Beautiful and minimalist, the traditional Japanese art of ikebana - arranging bouquets of cut flowers and leaves using very few elements - ideally corresponded to a form of expression I could transpose in a perfume. The smell of a rose early in the morning, damp, sprinkled with dew, delicate and light.” ArtLightBeautifulFormMorningCuttingExpressionFlowerElementsRoseSmellTraditionalDelicatePerfumeDewDampArrangingMinimalistBouquetsJapanese Art Author:Jean-Claude Ellena
“Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful.” TryingLooksBeautifulBeautyColorNotesUglyDelicateSolemnUgly Things Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne
“There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are the real world, from the ugliest to the most beautiful, everything that has character and expression, from the crudest and most brutal to the gentlest and most delicate; everything that speaks to us in its capacity as life.” WorldRealWholeCharacterBeautifulLawChoicesSpeakForceExpressionMaterialsCapacityRhythmReal WorldCosmicDelicateBrutalLife Choices Book:Asger Jorn Source: Asger Jorn
“Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.” TwoBeautifulGraceFlowerWindowSouthEastArchitectureDelicateSurprisingExecutionFinestScotlandGothicLightnessArchesGothic Architecture Book:Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff Source: Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff
“There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.” HandsBeautifulLosesGainsMethodSoldierNosesLionsDelicateArtificialTravelerLimbs Author:Robert Wilson Lynd
“Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into the truth and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicate and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skull shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.” WritingWarBeautifulDesireLanguageHurtCompassionHorrorSuicideSoldierIraqTerrorTraumaDelicateBulletsPreciseBladesSkullsShatteredIraq WarBrianBombersTurnerSuicide Bombers Author:Andrew Himes
“What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.” MeanSoulFeelingsBeautifulCertainHumilityResolutionDelicateSmallestBenevolencePromptsElevation Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater
“Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.” BeautifulDelicateScentJasmine Author:Natalie Portman