“When one goes on to find "better", or "higher", or "truer", or "more enduring", or "more widely agreed upon" forms of beauty, what happens to our regard for the less good, less high, less true, less universal instances? Simone Weil… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share Image
“When one goes on to find "better", or "higher", or "truer", or "more enduring", or "more widely agreed upon" forms of beauty, what happens… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share
The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato’s Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful,… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share
This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education.… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share
“Matisse never hoped to save lives. But he repeatedly said that he wanted to make paintings so serenely beautiful that when one came upon… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share
Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down — Elaine Scarry Copy Share
“The material world constrain us, often with gret beneficence, to see each person and thing in its time and place, its historical context. But… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share
Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share
How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things. — Elaine Scarry Copy Share
“Our desire for beauty is likely to outlast its object because, as Kant once observed, unlike all other pleasures, the pleasure we take in… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share
“Beauty as a “greeting”. At the moment one comes into the presence of something beautiful, it greets you. It lifts away from the neutral… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share
“Something beautiful fills the mind yet invites the search for something beyond itself, something larger or something of the same scale with which it… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share
Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share
“This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education.” — Elaine Scarry Copy Share
