Beauty Quote by Roberto Calasso Download Open image ““As the Greeks see it, elegance arises from excavation, from the cavity.”” — Roberto Calasso ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beauty
“I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.” — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
“It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“What did I brood on, sitting there in the classic pose with my elbows on my knees and my chin on my hands? We… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“Some people’s elegance was only skin-deep, scrape off a little bit of the veneer and you got the real wood—common” — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The Greeks had the greatest architectonic gifts. Every art has its climax at some point, and here architecture had its high point. Modeling and… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“The chiseled beauty of his features, like an ancient greek coin.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Beauty might be a gift to our souls from the heavens. Luxury, purchased. But suddenly she understood. There was strength in elegance.” — Lynn Sheene Copy Share Image
The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author. — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches. — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
“Maybe I’m inclined to what Nietzsche called “impure thought,” that is to say, a kind of thought where abstractions are so mixed with the facts of life that you can’t disentangle them. I feel thought in general, and in particular what is unfortunately called “philosophy,” should lead a sort of clandestine life for a while, just to renew itself. By… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share
Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive. — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster,… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
“They had to stir the churn of the ocean, until the soma floated up, as butter floats from milk. And this task could not… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward. — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about an old… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
“Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we are not… — Roberto Calasso 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 human. — Tool Copy Share
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 – your heart, your soul. Beauty one could get to know and fall in love with in one hour and cease to love it as speedily; but the soul one must learn to know. Believe me, nothing… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
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
