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“Looking for the essence of beauty is comprehending and appreciating that quality in an object which is fairer and better than only what our eyes see or our ears hear, whether that be a patch of blue in an overcast sky, the fleeting laughter from a voice we love, or something as unexpected as the rainbow colors in a spot of oil on the driveway.”

Eye Voice Quality Beauty Sky Objects Color Laughter Appreciate Essence Ears Blue Oil Spots Unexpected Rainbow Fleeting Patches Comprehending Driveway Overcast Essence Of Beauty

Book:You Bring the Confetti

Source: You Bring the Confetti

“Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.”

Firsts Art Shows Lasts Process Beauty Grace Color Sight Method Logical Curves Formation Symmetrical

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“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.”

Trying Looks Beautiful Beauty Color Notes Ugly Delicate Solemn Ugly Things

Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne

“Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.”

God Lost Beauty Color

Book:Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Oh, talk as we may of beauty as a thing to be chiselled from marble or wrought out on canvas, speculate as we may upon its colors and outlines, what is it but an intellectual abstraction, after all? The heart feels a beauty of another kind; looking through the outward environment, it discovers a deeper and more real love-liness.”

Feels Heart Kind May Real Beauty Environment Color Intellectual Deeper Real Love Canvas Abstraction Marble Outlines

Book:Literary recreations and miscellanies

Source: Literary recreations and miscellanies

“Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.”

Has Beens Reason Animal Beauty Forever Rich Taken Color Depends Bird Constitution Insects Arbitrary Inseparable

Book:The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.”

Looks Persons Bigs Eye Happiness Joy Spirit Animal Beauty Laughing Fire Color Laughter Loud Look Up Cheeks Animal Spirits

Book:Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life

Source: Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life