Roop Durgapal Quotes

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.

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.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

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

How goodness heightens beauty!

If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.

The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

I have so much love for art.

I really prize and love great painting.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

It's all about the art, really, at the end of the day.

I think my life has been transformed by the ability to take things that exist in the world and look at them more closely. I think that's what art does at its best: it allows us to slow down.

I don't know if I believe in art. I certainly believe in light.

I have been brought up around art. Even now, when I travel, I love going to museums and spend hours in front of paintings. Art is like oxygen for me. That's what I miss in Bombay.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

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