Beauty Quote by Elaine Scarry Download Open image “Beauty always takes place in the particular.” — Elaine Scarry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beauty Particular
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
“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 says, "He who has gone farther, to the very beauty of the world itself, does not love them any less… — 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 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 mental life doesn't so constrain us. It is porous, open to air and light, swings forward while swaying back, scatters its stripes in all directions, and delights to find itself beached beside something invented only that… — 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 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
“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 Image
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever;It's loveliness increase;it will never pass into nothingness;but still will keep a bower quiet for us,and… — John Keats Copy Share Image
To fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral of our divinity, and still be human. — Tool Copy Share
The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and… — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
“We've all met people who are beautiful on the outside, however, when they open their mouths to speak, they have nothing of substance to… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When… — Natalie Copy Share Image
“do not misunderstand person by beauty You really do not know its real or Mask on dirty thoughts” — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious – your heart, your soul. Beauty one could get to know and fall in love with in one hour and cease to love it as speedily; but the soul one must learn to know. Believe me, nothing… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Call her beautiful a million times and she won't believe you. Call her ugly once, and she will never forget it. — Tumblr Copy Share Image
