Beauty
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"Where there is rhythm, there is grace.Where there is grace, there is efficiency." Christopher Bergland
"Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon."
 Oscar Wilde
"Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not occur to nature whether or not a creature is within our range of vision, and the suspicion arises that even the zebra was not designed for our benefit." Rudolf Arnheim, psychologist and author (1904-2007)
"Of all the gifts you received at birth, your ability to behold the beauty of the world is the most precious. " Veronique Vienne
"The balance of nature is reached when heating the house costs as much as going south for the winter." James H. McGavran
"Do you think that things of creative beauty and stimulation are not valuable in themselves as civilizing elements?" Robert Genn
“There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.” G.K. Chesterton, essayist and novelist (1874-1936)
“The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.” Henry Miller
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.” Albert Einstein
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” Albert Einstein |
