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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

“To play your colors by eye is worse than playing the piano by ear.”

Play Eye Color Ears Piano

Author:John French Sloan

“Dull indeed would be the man that did not feel the thrill awakened by the first glimpse of brilliant color in the orchard, and the cheery warbling notes borne to our ears on the first gentle breath of spring!”

Men Feels Firsts Would Be Color He Man Spring Ears Breaths Notes Brilliant Gentle Dull Thrill Glimpse Awakened Orchard

Book:Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes

Source: Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes

“Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only. The intellectof man, on the contrary, energises as well as his eye or ear, and perceives in sights or sounds something beyond them. It seizes and unites what the senses present to it; it grasps and forms what need not be seen or heard except in detail. It discerns in lines and colors, or in tones, what is beautiful and what is not. It gives them a meaning, and invests them with an idea.”

Men Needs Giving Wells Ideas Eye Beautiful Form Sound Lines Heard Color Ears Sight Details Contrary Senses Perceive Tone His Eyes Humankind Brutes Arrested Sight And Sound

Author:John Henry Newman

“As, in Sense, that which is really within us, is (as I have said before) only Motion, caused by the action of external objects, but in appearance; to the Sight, Light and Color; to the Ear, Sound; to the Nostril, Odor, &c.”

Said Light Action Sound Objects Color Ears Sight Appearance Odor Light And Color

Book:The Ethics of Hobbes: As Contained in Selections from His Works

Source: The Ethics of Hobbes: As Contained in Selections from His Works

“The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.”

Knows Want Needs Writing Hands Eye Names Ability Knowing Color Please Ears Physics Painter Landscape Gestures Rhetoric

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge of music to prepare the nuances and colors of sound.”

Use Sound Quality Special Color Ears Sensitivity Thorough Nuance Guitarist Thorough Knowledge

Author:Andres Segovia

“To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my small range, and every color in the tones of my voice, with every look into the eyes of my audience, to thank Him. Thank you, God, for letting me be born, for giving me eyes to see the daffodils lean in the wind, all my brothers, all my sisters, for giving me ears to hear crying, legs to come running, hands to smooth damp hair, a voice to laugh with and to sing with...to sing to you and the daffodils.”

Giving Looks Hands Eye Running Voice Born Audience Laughing Cry Color Brother Wind Hair Ears Praise Notes Legs Range Tone My Brother My Sister Smooth Damp Praise God Thank You God Daffodil

Book:DAYBREAK

Source: DAYBREAK

“Let me tell you something about hypochondria: It's a pernicious, undermining little demon. It won't kill you, but it will sap the color from your life so that in the loveliest moments, the moments of grace, you are hit with that whisper in your ear that takes it all away. I'm sick, I'm dying - I just don't know it yet.”

Knows Littles Moments Grace Dying Color Ears Sick Let Me Demon Sap Pernicious Undermining

Author:Dani Shapiro