Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Great short quote and quotation by: Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966 , US author & critic (1933 – )
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised. Great short quote and quotation by: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations , Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD – 180 […]
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While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art. Great short quote and quotation by: Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized […]
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Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art. Great short quote and quotation by: Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994 ,
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Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice… Great short quote and quotation by: Marquis de Sade, Justine ,
attitudes, beautiful, becomes, contend, feeble, found, however, virtue, worst
John Wayne, (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror) 1956
Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love. Great short quote and quotation by: John Wayne, (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror) 1956 , US movie actor & director (1907 – 1979)
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You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you–the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I […]
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