"I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose."

Beauty, Purpose, Patience, Question

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"I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose."

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"The sun, rising and setting in splendid colors, never grows tired of its admirers-much like a lady, aglow with grace, never grows tired of chivalrous acts or pretty flowers."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Beautiful isn't something you become. It's something you realize you are."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

Beauty, Realization, Self, Identity

"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Beauty, Variety, Life, Light

"Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

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"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Beauty, Goodness, Illusion

"Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Beauty, Truth, Vision, Reality

"The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Beauty, Happiness, Wisdom, Truth, Power

"However beautiful a morning may be, we still must not wish it to continue endlessly, because this shall mean missing forever all the beauties of the night!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Beauty, Truth, Wisdom, Future, Today

"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."

John Ruskin, English Writer

Beauty, Lilies, Peacocks, World

"What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?' In the most evident sense they mean everything. I cannot fathom or define their meaning any more than I can fathom or define love or religion or goodness."

Helen Keller, American Author

Beauty, Art, Emotion, Nature

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"Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded."

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"The sun, rising and setting in splendid colors, never grows tired of its admirers-much like a lady, aglow with grace, never grows tired of chivalrous acts or pretty flowers."

"Beautiful isn't something you become. It's something you realize you are."

"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow."

"Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive."

"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness."

"Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality."

"The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!"

"However beautiful a morning may be, we still must not wish it to continue endlessly, because this shall mean missing forever all the beauties of the night!"

"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."

"What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?' In the most evident sense they mean everything. I cannot fathom or define their meaning any more than I can fathom or define love or religion or goodness."

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"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."

"Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'."

"What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning."

"A man's true character comes out when he's drunk."

"Why should poetry have to make sense?"

"I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch."

"Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves."

"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."

"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain."

"Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded."