Acquisition Quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no…

— Vera Brittain

But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of whichhe is not always mastersomething that at times strangely wills…

— Charlotte Brontë

One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

— Oscar Wilde

“I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect." His…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“His eyes searched mine intently, and for a moment we stood there toe to toe. “The ones who throw their beauty around, waste what…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“Petty mindedness instructs eyes to see everything from an unappropriate standpoint, beautifulness could be looked otherwise.”

— Toba Beta

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, they say, but what if you are the beauty? Then, it's the look in a man's…

— Orna Ross

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

— Piet Mondrian

“Beauty is nonconceptual. Nothing in the object directly explains it.”

— Timothy Morton

A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without a reason.…

— George Berkeley

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]

— Christian Nestell Bovee