Art Quote by Victor Hugo

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in…

— Auguste Rodin

“The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in…

— Victor Hugo

“The novel is a hybrid genre and a large part of its charm arises from the alluvial nature of its materials. There is nothing…

— Enrique Vila-Matas

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

— Ronald D. Moore

“The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one ought to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The beautiful is hidden from the eyes of those who are not searching for the truth, for whom it is contra-indicated. But the profound…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“most common people oft he market-place much prefer light literature to improving books. The problem is, that so many romances contain slanderous anecdotes about…

— Cao Xueqin

The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents…

— Joseph Joubert

“...for literature had always been a solace for him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil.”

— E.M. Forster