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“I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.”

Faces Beauty Admire Aesthetic Aesthetics Discouraging Aesthetic Beauty

Author:Marcel Duchamp

“When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.”

Soul Religion Religious Wonder Beauty Moon Worship Creator Admire My Soul Sunset Imperfect Metaphysics Beautiful Sunset

Book:The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

“Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.”

Mind Stills Ideas Soul Beautiful Form Values Beauty Cases Shapes Understood Perfection Shining Mere Admire Shells Pearls Covering Loveliness Shining Through

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.”

Mind Fall Beauty Weak Cease Admire Flats Admiration Toys Shrinks Captives Weak Minds

Book:Paradise Regain'd: A Poem in Four Books

Source: Paradise Regain'd: A Poem in Four Books

“What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.”

People Use Dream Girl Beauty Wall Keys Envy Admire Despise Blank Nails Hammers Using Me Hangers

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“Life is beauty, admire it.”

Life Is Beauty Admire

Author:Mother Teresa

“How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike.”

May Doe Art Today Past Order House Perfect Beauty Break Taste Essentials Garden Admire Indifference Admiration Gardening Indifferent Radiant Cottages Radiant Beauty

Author:William Rothenstein

“Stargazing is one of the most profoundly human things one can do. But perhaps we must more frequently tear ourselves away from the mystery and beauty of the starry heavens above, and rather inspect, admire and foster the moral law within.”

Humans Law Heaven Stars Can Do Beauty Moral Mystery Tears Morality Admire Star Gazing Admiring Moral Law Fostering Stargazing

Author:Jack Gleeson

“There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.”

Inspirational Soul Beauty Courage Dare Admire True Beauty

Author:William Congreve

“Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.”

Real Hands Culture Beauty Goes On Admire Instance Sunset Old Fashioned Temperament Provincialism

Book:Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

“Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.”

Art Artist Beauty Conditions Prejudice Admire Great Art Great Artist Selected

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays