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"It seems to me that the pleasure one feels in a work of art is just one thing that one does not have to explain."
"A slight deviation form what we would think of as symmetry gives us a bit more information and the mind seems to enjoy this stimulation because it is always looking for value. Beauty is a slight deviation from expectation."
"Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed."
"No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful."
"I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about them. That's what people are always doing in art. They call a painter an impressionist or a cubist or something and then they put him in a drawer and don't see him as a living individual painter any more."
"The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns of our vision are disrupted that we truly pay attention and must ask ourselves what we are looking at."
"Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language."
"I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty shoes because my world needed more beauty to counter all the ugliness in it. I would wear pink because I hated gray, I didn't deserve white, and I was sick of black."
"Watching them was like watching the sunset and the sunrise, equally beautiful in different ways."
Explore more quotes by Henry David Thoreau
"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."
"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things."
"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
"Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances."
"A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor."
"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end."
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