Artist Quote by Joseph Joubert

Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

— Walt Whitman

“An eloquent style of fashion enhances the elegance of enchanting beauty.”

— Wayne Chirisa

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

— Will Self

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!

— Jean Dubuffet

“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The power of beauty is that it encapsulates all the bitter sweet elements and mirrors them back as a breathtaking masterpiece.”

— Wayne Chirisa

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning…

— Jean Dubuffet

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

BEAUTIFUL is stark, disquieting and, quite simply, riveting. Amy Reed is an author to keep on your radar.

— Ellen Hopkins

Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Everything beautiful has to be worked for.

— Eknath Easwaran