“Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com
“Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater.”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com
“It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com
“She reminded me of the sea; the way she came dancing towards you, wild and beautiful, and just when she was almost close enough to touch she’d rush away again.”— Glenda Millard, amazon.com
“That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.”— Wassily Kandinsky, amazon.com
“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming — that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.”— Albert Camus, en.wikiquote.org
“I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.”— Piet Mondrian, amazon.com
“The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is.”— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.com
“The Beautiful is always strange…it always contains a touch of strangeness, of simple, unpremeditated and unconscious strangeness, and it is that touch of strangeness that gives it its particular quality as Beauty.”— Charles Baudelaire, amazon.com
“The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.”— Piet Mondrian, theartstory.org
“A lag time exists between getting shot and knowing that you have been shot.”— Jennifer Egan, newyorker.com
“People rarely look the way you expect them to, even when you’ve seen pictures.”— Jennifer Egan, newyorker.com
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offers us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”— Albert Camus, en.wikiquote.org