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“For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all.”

People Common Beauty Class Middle Movement Ships Appeals Middle Class Broads Gestures Grain Polish

Book:The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

Source: The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

“All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life.”

Men Art Fall Common Beauty Bears Falling In Love Witness Desperate Beauty Of Life Very True Common Life Poetry And Music

Book:The newborn Christian: 114 readings from J.B. Phillips

Source: The newborn Christian: 114 readings from J.B. Phillips

“Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common every-day beauty.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art.”

Art Common Beauty Highest Art Is Aim Vulgar Wretched Ugliness

Book:The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature

Source: The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature

“Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.”

Ifs Want Looks Persons Beautiful Fun Common Beauty Skins Boring Surface Having Fun Skin Deep Beauty Is Skin Deep Beauty Is Only Skin Deep Beauty Skin Deep

Author:Amanda Peet

“The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.”

Ifs Should Made Soul Matter Body Belief Common Beauty Possibility Shining Errors Appreciation Appearance Your Body Attractive Superficial True Beauty Disdain Superficiality

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!”

Common Beauty Common Sense

Book:Poems of George Meredith

Source: Poems of George Meredith

“Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, - but the beauty and soul in his aspect . . . runs into fable, personifies every fact. . . .”

Soul Facts Running Common Beauty Feet Hero Aspect Structure Common Sense Poetry Is Inches Fables

Author:Marsilio Ficino