“In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them as a model and whose finest and most beautiful aspects they are always striving to imitate and reproduce.” BeautifulOpinionModelsAspectStriveDebtPainterFinestGiotto Book:Artists of the Renaissance: a selection from Lives of the artists Source: Artists of the Renaissance: a selection from Lives of the artists
“Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once in a while a Thomas Reed Powell gets away with an imaginary judicial opinion that gives a real twist to the lion's tail. Once in a while a Thurman Arnold forgets his footnotes as though to say that if people do not believe or understand him that is their worry and not his. But even such mild breaches of etiquette as these are tolerated gingerly and seldom, and are likely to be looked at a little askance by the writers' more pious brethren.” PeopleIfsGivingWritingBelieveLittlesRealBeautifulLawForgetOpinionWorryTraditionDignityFakeExceptionGet AwayReviewsLionsImaginaryTailsTwistsEtiquetteIn-lawsJudicialPiousBrethrenReedsBreachFootnotes Author:Fred Rodell
“I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is, and also the most demanding....Basketball comes close, but it's a team sport and lacks tennis's primal mano a mano intensity. Boxing might come close- at least at the lighter weight divisions- but the actual physical damage the fighters inflict on each other makes it too concretely brutal to be really beautiful- a level of abstraction and formality (i.e., play) is necessary for a sport to possess true metaphysical beauty (in my opinion).” PlayMightBeautifulSportsLevelsOpinionTeamBasketballWeightFighterDamageTennisBoxingDivisionIntensitySubmitBrutalMetaphysicalAbstractionPrimalLightersReally BeautifulSports TeamFormalityPhysical Beauty Author:David Foster Wallace
“I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression,--a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination.” StillsEyeBeautifulImaginationBeautyOpinionExpressionEarsMereSenses Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“When I grew up, it was a time when women were just supposed to be cute and not have many opinions. My mother and her friends were quite different. They were all the most beautiful women you've ever seen ... and they were very strong women.” DifferentBeautifulMotherStrongOpinionGrewGrew UpSupposed To BeCuteVery StrongStrong WomenBeautiful Women Author:Cher
“I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.” WantArtMadeBeautifulOpinionObjectsWestIndianPotBlanketBeautiful ArtAmerican West Book:On the Rez Source: On the Rez
“An Indian philosopher, being asked what were, according to his opinion, the two most beautiful things in the universe, answered: The starry heavens above our heads, and the feeling of duty in our hearts.” HeartTwoFeelingsBeautifulUniverseHeavenBeautyOpinionDutyPhilosopherIndianBeautiful Things Author:Jacques-Benigne Bossuet