Beauty

Beauty is a characteristic that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction. Beauty can be found in almost anything, if you look for it. Below are some of the greatest beauty quotes on the web.

"The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you’re going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult."
― Danny Elfman
"Congress has an obligation to protect our country’s natural beauty, embodied in our nation’s parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes."
― Dave Reichert
"Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden."
― Doris Day
"The U.S. states that allow for citizens’ initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don’t. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice."
― Daniel Hannan
"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."
― David Hume
"That’s the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn’t make any difference where the theme comes from; the treatment of it can be jazz."
― Dave Brubeck
"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
"Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it."
― Donald Knuth
"The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop – is to pause – and when the caravan goes away, that’s when this stuff comes."
― David Remnick
"Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves."
― Derek Walcott

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