Beauty Quote by Plutarch Download Open image “Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.” — Plutarch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beauty Ease Exactness Giving Lasting Solidity Speed Work
To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
I've come to believe that beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas. — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
Beauty is too easy. Often in my work, I take beautiful objects and do extreme things to them so that they are overlaid with… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power. — John Hersey Copy Share Image
It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function. — Giannina Braschi Copy Share Image
You don't need to do things in the typical way to get a beautiful result. — Bria Vinaite Copy Share Image
I'm blessed that I can leave it to the pros at work and red-carpet events, because I can't say I'm adept. Still, I'm definitely… — Becki Newton Copy Share Image
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All I can say about the work I try to do, is that the aesthetic is in reality itself. — Helen Levitt Copy Share Image
When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are." — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. — Plutarch 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… — Tool Copy Share Image
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 –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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