Best beauty & shapes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without a reason. And as this beauty is found in the shape and form of corporeal things, so also is there analogous to it a beauty of another kind, an order, a symmetry, and comeliness in the moral world. And as the eye perceiveth the one, so the mind doth by a certain interior sense perceive the other, which sense, talent, or faculty, is ever quickest and purest in the noblest minds.”

Source: Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion Against Those who are Called Free-thinkers

“I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.”

Men Believe Order Force I Believe Change Beauty Economic Greatness Produce Shapes Continuing Abstraction Exceptional Nobility Shifting Validity

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”

Mind Body Literature Women Beauty Taught Shapes Prison Rounds Feminist Womens Rights Cages Infancy Roaming Women Rights Vindication Women Right Infancy Is Body Shapes

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.”

Inspirational Order Beauty Depends Shapes Organized

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“The difference between me and a butterfly is that the butterfly looks at a flower with no purpose in mind but to sip nectar. The flower feeds its body while for me the colours and shapes and scents of flowers feed my heart. But how arrogant of me to assume that the butterfly does not feel its miniscule heart also soar for no reason other than touching and being touched by beauty!”

Feels Mind Looks Heart Doe Reason Body Purpose Differences Beauty Flower My Heart Shapes Assuming Colour Touched No Reason Touching Butterfly Arrogant Scent Soar Nectar Flora

Author:Densey Clyne

“The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem”

Beauty Pieces Design Shapes Chess Block Visuals Alphabet Chess Pieces

Book:Marcel Duchamp, the box in a valise: De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy : inventory of an edition

Source: Marcel Duchamp, the box in a valise: De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy : inventory of an edition

“When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I photographed what the camera was seeing. I interfered very little, and the lens produced anatomical images and shapes which my eyes had never observed.”

Littles Eye Beauty Saws Seeing Shapes Cameras Photograph Lenses

Book:Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography

Source: Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography

“One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.”

Giving Different Form Beauty Shapes Strings Nonconformity Vibrate Basic Things

Author:Edward Witten

“I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.”

Action Form Beauty Figures Bears Shapes Logic Ugly Inward Elephants Toads

Book:Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers

Source: Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers

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