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“It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.”

May Found Causes United Beauty Fine Perfection Connected Features Nobility Coexist Baseness Incongruity Plainness

Author:Herbert Spencer

“The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.”

Beautiful Faces Perfect Beauty Strange Perfection Ugly Ugliness Beautiful Face

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Beauty is the attractive power of perfection.”

Beauty Perfection Attractive

Author:Ananda Coomaraswamy

“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

“Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful-and perfect, unless it be truly what it should be, and possess truly all that it should have.”

Should May Reason Beautiful Perfect Beauty Truth Is Perfection Should Have Foundation Stature

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.”

Humans Truth Sound Beauty Poverty Mystery Perfection Sight Human Life Contemplation Imperfect Succession Sight And Sound

Author:Lewis Mumford

“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.”

Littles Care Beauty Struggle Century Concerned Perfection Don't Care I Don't Care Intensity I Care Life Struggle

Author:Emile Zola

“I have a crumble baby belly, boobs are worse for wear after two kids...I'm doing all right. I'm 33. I don't look in the mirror and go, "Oh, I look fantastic!". Of course I don't. Nobody is perfect. I just don't believe in perfection. But I do believe in saying, "This is who I am and look at me not being perfect!". I'm proud of that.”

“As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I am, how impotent are words in the presence of such perfection.”

Thinking Trying Hands Realizing Poor Beauty Flower Creatures Perfection

Book:An Island Garden

Source: An Island Garden

“The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.”

Beauty Missing Habit Demand Perfection Satisfaction Hungry Shortcomings

Book:The Sense of Beauty

Source: The Sense of Beauty

“When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.”

Thinking Mind Art Eye Beauty Mystery Awareness Perfection Mystery Of Life

Book:Agnes Martin: the islands

Source: Agnes Martin: the islands

“In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.”

Men World Believe Humans Beautiful Forget Beauty Cases Worship Standards Perfection Filled Alas Select

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection. It's too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.”

People Thinking World Mind Realizing Beauty This World Perfection Response Mysterious Bad People Mysterious Things

Author:Agnes Martin

“The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection.”