Beauty Quote by Peter Schjeldahl

“It's my duty to sell the ideas. But there's always a question when it comes to beauty.”

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A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

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Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object.

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I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

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The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!

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Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.

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Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other.

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Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens.

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