Accepting Quote by Thomas Mann

“Almost every artistic nature is born with a revealing connoisseurial tendency that appreciates injustice so long as it results in beauty and applauds, even…

— Thomas Mann

Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare…

— William Blake

“If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom…

— Oscar Wilde

Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives…

— Victor Cousin

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

— Roman Payne

Incapacity to appreciate certain types of beauty may be the condition sine qua non for the appreciation of another kind; the greatest capacity both…

— George Santayana

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of…

— Oscar Wilde

Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.

— Chanakya

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There is beauty in every incident of life; the true and the false, the wise and the foolish, are all one in the eye…

— Aleister Crowley