Care Quote by Rudolf Arnheim

I'm not interested in showing the wish of what it looks like to be human. I'm interested in showing what it actually looks like.

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

As I stand over the insect crawling amid the pine needles on the forest floor, and endeavoring to conceal itself from my sight, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

— Jean Genet

“This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitating predefined morphological expectations.…

— Peter Sloterdijk

The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.

— Richard Wilbur

Can you see the beauty in a cockroach?

— Wayne Dyer

I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our…

— Julia McNair Wright

In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action.…

— Anonymous

“As an aesthetic phenomenon existence is still bearable for us,57 and art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Could we see things always as we have sometimes seen them—and as one day we must always see them, only far better—should we ever…

— George MacDonald