When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down — Elaine Scarry Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
