Beauty Quote by Pierre Janet

“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in…

— Harold Bloom

The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.

— Tina Brown

“As, in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature, so as to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nature, it her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man”

— John Morley

“He wanted to achieve something of surpassing beauty that would last. A creation that would mean that he--the mosaic worker Caius Crispus of Varena--had…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty. [Lat., Nimis in veritate, et similitudinis quam pulchritudinis amantior.]

— Quintilian

“The finest SF comes to grips with life's mysteries, with our resentments against our own natures and our limited societies. It does so by…

— George Zebrowski

“At certain epochs, man has felt conscious of something about himself - body and spirit - which was outside the day-to-day struggle for existence…

— Kenneth Clark

“Four very strange and truly poetic human beings in this century have attained mastery in prose, for which this century was not made otherwise—for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties…

— Ralph Ellison

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be…

— William Ellery Channing

The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone…

— Franz Grillparzer