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Beauty

You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country. – Guglielmo Marconi

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture – and forget that merchandise must be sold. – James Randolph Adams

The beauty of the past belongs to the past. – Margaret Bourke-White

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness. – Renee Vivien

Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs. – Francesca da Rimini

I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing. – Jerry Mathers

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. – Gustav Stickley

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see. – Vera Brittain

I think love and beauty are what life is all about. – John Derek

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. – Godfrey Harold Hardy

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places. – David Rittenhouse

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. – Herbert Gold

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty. – Max Roach

But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content. – Anne Boyd

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us. – Richard H. Baker

Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty? – Anna Katharine Green

There are two kinds of artists in this world those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration. – Anna Katharine Green

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides. – Junichiro Tanizaki

A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space. – Clarence Stein

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them. – Laurette Taylor