#beau

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#feminine #masculine #men #most #most beautiful

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#beauty #become #change #continues #historical

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#beautiful #beauty #called #confused #confusion

Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty! ↗

— Mario Puzo

#beauty

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#beauty

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#confusion #created #earth #explaining #face

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare! ↗

— Homer

#rare #wisdom #youth

A great free joy surges through me when I work... with tense slashes and a few thrusts the beautiful white fields receive their color and the work is finished in a few minutes. ↗

— Clyfford Still

#color #few #fields #finished #free

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#beauty #become #just #otherwise #philosophy

In a sense, beauty is what one chooses to feel by virtue of what one chooses to imitate and to create. ↗

— Robert Pack

#beauty