“A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.” BeautifulGrowingAchieveMethodAffairEnthusiasmEnthusiasticLove AffairBeautiful Love Book:The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn Source: The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn
“The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.” MayBeautifulUsedPartyBeautyCasesObjectsColdLoversMethodPatientLawyerRuinsOperationsPhysicistInfatuationSpectatorsMeasurementSurgeonsUnattractiveGhastlyEpithetDescribe Me Author:George Bernard Shaw
“There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.” HandsBeautifulLosesGainsMethodSoldierNosesLionsDelicateArtificialTravelerLimbs Author:Robert Wilson Lynd
“When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport.” TryingArtTwoBeautifulWinningSportsStudyTroublePositionMethodChessAdmireCombinationOpponentsKnightsBishopsEndgame Author:Ashot Nadanian
“Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” IfsMenShouldMindLittlesReasonFeelingsBeautifulSpiritSongCultureSpeakGrowsPerfectStudyFineOughtMethodSensesImpressionReasonableFaculty Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“What is it that is most beautiful? - The Universe; for it is the work of God. What is most powerful? - Necessity; because it triumphs over all things. What is most difficult? - To know one's self. What is most easy? - To give advice. What method must we take to lead a good life? - To do nothing we would condemn in others. What is necessary to happiness? - A sound body and a contented mind.” KnowsGivingMindSelfBodyBeautifulUniverseEasyDifficultSoundPowerfulAdviceAll ThingsMethodTriumphMost PowerfulGood LifeSound Body Author:Thales
“For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one’s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.” WorldWayFirstsArtMightBeautifulPurposeIndividualLostUnderstandingTermResultsEffortQualityWorryStruggleObjectsProductsFindingsConsequenceFirst TimeMethodOneselfAestheticThickCanvasSuccess And FailureTrue PurposePurpose Of ArtBeautiful Objects Book:Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink) Source: Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)
“Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.” BeautifulLanguageLet MeMethodMysteriousExcitementEcstasyBrushesTrembling Book:Vincent van Gogh Source: Vincent van Gogh
“Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake. A win without art is somehow less than a victory; less, almost, than a beautiful defeat. In football, the romantic and the pragmatist are ever at war in the same breast. Beauty, it must be understood here, is not Barcelona's aim but their method. And last night they were ready to use this method at every opportunity - quick-fire passing of wit and purpose in the danger areas, seeking always to produce an unlooked-for player in a position of threat.” ArtWarUseLastsBeautifulPurposeNightGuyOpportunityWinningBehindsFirePlayerDangerPositionProduceFootballReadyVictoryUnderstoodArt IsToughAreasAimMethodThreatSakeDefeatSeekingWitPassingPassingsSoccerAnalysisBreastsLast NightBarcelonaTough GuyPragmatists Author:Simon Barnes
“Healing with the clean, pure, beautiful agents of nature is surely the one method of all which appeals to most of us” BeautifulHealingPureMethodCleanAgentsAppeals Author:Edward Bach