Plato Quotes

I am inspired by so much. I am inspired by women, of course - beautiful women. I am also inspired by not so beautiful things in the world.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

Every form correctly seen is beautiful

From the very beginning, I was very interested just in light, and art seemed to be a way to work with it.

There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit.

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.

All is as beautiful as we think it.

Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.

The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one has ever been able to explain why the Doric temple of Paestum is more beautiful than a glass of cold beer except by bringing in considerations that have nothing to do with beauty.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

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

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes coarse and dull if it remains unvisited by images and thoughts that hold the radiance of beauty.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.