First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.
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.
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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.
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.
I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.
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.
Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing.
I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.
I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion.
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring but beauty faded has no second spring.
Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
I feel by posing for Playboy I've discovered my own sexuality and beauty, and I feel more confident than ever.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.