Beauty Quote by Arthur Symons

“He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue.” quote by Arthur Symons — Download Open image

“He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue.”

Arthur Symons

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Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.

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A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

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The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.

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I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.

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