Painting Quote by Elaine Scarry

“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

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

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

Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down

— Elaine Scarry

“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

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

Beauty always takes place in the particular.

— Elaine Scarry

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

— Elaine Scarry

Beauty brings copies of itself into being.

— Elaine Scarry

“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

“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

“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