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“The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.”

Art Philosophy Beautiful Beauty History Concern Beautiful Things

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

“It is because everything must come to an end that everything is so beautiful.”

Art Ends Philosophy Beautiful Beauty History

Author:Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

“I'll tell you...why Wonder Woman worked. Or Bionic Woman. Or any of those [shows] really. It was because it wasn't about brawn...it was about brains. And yes, she happened to be beautiful, she happened to be kind of extraordinary in some way, but she wasn't a guy. And I think that, [now], they...put out a female hero, and all they are doing is changing the costume from a man to a woman...they're not showcasing any of the tremendous dichotomies than women possess in term of softness and toughness, sweetness and grit, inner and outer strength.”

“The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate of the common: everything really great, good, and beautiful, is improbable, since it is extraordinary and therefore at least suspect. Axiom of the ordinary: our conditions and environment must have existed everywhere, for they are really so natural.”

Two Beautiful Natural Common History Environment Conditions Ordinary Criticism Historical Extraordinary Suspects Really Great Maxims Axioms Improbable

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?”

Life Beautiful Faces Behinds Beauty Creativity History Paint

Author:Pablo Picasso

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”

I Can Past Beautiful Time Emotion Beauty History Notes Realising Beauty Is Only Skin Deep Emotional Love

Book:The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930

Source: The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930

“Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.”

Inspirational Motivational Beautiful History Distance

Author:Tacitus

“Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.”

World Art Soul Philosophy Beautiful Artist Beauty History Wonderful Fashion Strange Chaos Torment Being Beautiful

Book:The Moon and Sixpence

Source: The Moon and Sixpence