美というのは山の頂上に似ているように私には思われた。そこに着いてしまえば、また下りる以外には何もすることがないのである。の英語

It seemed to me that beauty was like the summit of a mountain peak; when you had reached it there was nothing to do but to come down again.

For many years I thought that it was beauty alone that gave significance to life and that the only purpose that could be assigned to the generations that succeed one another on the face of this crowded earth was to produce an artist now and then.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

I suppose that we mean by beauty that object, spiritual or material, more often material, which satisfies our aesthetic sense.

I suppose that what we mean by beauty is that object, spiritual or material, more often material, which satisfies our aesthetic sense.

Although I modified this extravagance later by including the beautiful life among the works of art that alone gave a meaning to life, it was still beauty that I valued.

The emotion they gave me was exquisite, but I could not preserve it, nor could I indefinitely repeat it; the most beautiful things in the world finished by boring me.

The museums are full of objects which the most cultivated taste of a period considered beautiful, but which seem to us now worthless.

a member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who advocated the doctrine that virtue is the only good and that the essence of virtue is self-control

In the greatest of all works of art everything had been realized, I could give nothing, and my restless mind tired of passive contemplation.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

Nothing gives an artist as much strength as the knowledge that there is at least one person who loves deeply what he has created.

The work of art, I decided, was the final product of human activity, and the final justification for all the misery, the endless toil and the frustrated strivings of humanity.

Science is a good thing, but it is not an end in itself; it is a means toward an end and that end is human betterment.

Sometimes I wonder if this world is just in someone's head, and he dreams us all into existence. Perhaps it's even me.

The only useful knowledge is that which teaches us how to seek what is good and avoid what is evil.

The price of a work of art, even if it itself does not change, can increase depending on how the artist's identity is portrayed at exhibition.

It must also be said that spotting what is important in current science is a matter of judgement, one cannot know that one is right.

The scientist has a love of facts, even isolated facts, similar to the poet's love of words.

More than ever do we need goals or leading ideas that will give purpose to whatever we are doing.

The other thing is that I always thought about what I wanted to do rather than what I should do or what I could do.

We look back on days gone by, if not always with affections, at any rate with a kind of wistfulness.

We look back on days gone by if not always with affections, at any rate with a kind of wistfulness.

For example, when I see scenery from a car window, when I see an interesting building while walking, when I recall a long movie in a single moment, and especially when I see the work of a painter I admire.

And we can communicate so many things in so many ways - with our faces, hands, bodies, and voices. We can even write our thoughts in words.

Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love, love is not music, music is the best.

Love is not quantitative. If you love one hundred people, you cannot assign one hundredth of that love to each individual person. To say that you are not able to love one person because you love another is not real love.

Mastering facts patiently is far more necessary for them than learning expressive and critical skills.

I think it's important to give your best all the time and if you make a mistake, learn from it and make use of it at the next step in your life.

It is said that scholarship is the pursuit of truth. To the scholar, truth is everything. It is impossible to overemphasize its importance.