Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.
Maya AngelouIt is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar WildeWhen I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.
Clint EastwoodThe internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.
Richard P. FeynmanMost human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous HuxleyI call architecture frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThat pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan PoeThere are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
John RuskinHow sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!
Henry David ThoreauThe violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Tennessee WilliamsIt was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
Aldous HuxleyLife doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Woody AllenEven with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.
Alice WalkerGive yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.
Wayne DyerUnderstand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.
Anthony BourdainNature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Charles DickensThere is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.
John MuirI can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
Virginia WoolfBeauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Edmund BurkeA lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
Stephen KingWhen you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus AureliusAny good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
Denzel WashingtonYouth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz KafkaGlorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
Golda MeirOh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.
John MuirIt’s cool to be recognised by your peers.
Frank OceanLife is precious.
John KennedyTo be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaAmong the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
Haruki MurakamiWe made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.
Steve JobsThe biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNo good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
John RuskinI thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
E. E. CummingsYou see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across – not to just depict life – or criticize it – but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.
Ernest HemingwayFor in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Martin LutherI have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.
Amelia EarhartDoing graphic novels is cool! It’s fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.
Anthony BourdainIn America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.
Barack ObamaPeople say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘
Dolly PartonIf a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
Albert SchweitzerAmericans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
George Bernard ShawA woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.
BuddhaIf you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.
Kanye WestI think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.
Katharine HepburnFill the earth with your songs of gratitude.
Charles SpurgeonHave you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiGod writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
Martin LutherAmerica is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThis is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThere are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
Niccolo MachiavelliO, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.
Ludwig van BeethovenWithout art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard ShawI got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.
Jim CarreyA great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Benjamin DisraeliAt the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.
Kevin HartArt raises its head where creeds relax.
Friedrich NietzscheAnyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz KafkaArt is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Karl MarxTrees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
John MuirBefore ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.
Dwayne Johnson