Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.

the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.

There was once a fiddler who played so beauitully that everybody danced. A deaf man who could not hear the music considered them all insane. Those who are with Jesus in suffering hear this music to which other men are deaf. They dance and do not care if they are considered insane.

As beautiful as cinema is, it's a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.

I've been told I'd make a great parts model.

Art is often defined as a famous masterpiece in a gallery, and we are meant to visit the work and view it to appreciate it. But that is not all there is.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful. And the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath, like space and time, make all matter gay. Even the corpse has its own beauty.

And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not,And all their botany is Latin names.