Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing!

Heureux ceux qui voient de belles choses dans les endroits modestes où d'autres ne voient rien.

Camille Pissarro

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Topic

Finding beauty Paying attention Perception Observation Beauty

Author

Camille Pissarro

Source

Letters of Camille Pissarro

Medium

Letter

Language

French

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Painter Artist

From

U.S. Virgin Islands Caribbean

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Original Citation

Pissarro, Camille. Letter to his son Lucien. 26 July 1893.

Current Citation

Pissarro, Camille. Quoted in Letters of the Great Artists: From Blake to Pollock, edited by Richard Friedenthal. Random House, 1963.

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Another quote from the 1890s

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the Naval Treaty

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Topic
Flowers Beauty of nature Nature of God
Speaker
Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle
Source
The Adventure of the Naval Treaty
Medium
Short story Magazine
Genre
Detective fiction
Language
English
Time
1893 1890s 19th century
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Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty." The Strand Magazine. London, 1893.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Naval Treaty." The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2023.

Another quote about Beauty

Beauty will save the world.

Adelaida

Quoted in The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Topic
Beauty Salvation
Speaker
Adelaida

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Source
The Idiot
Medium
Novel
Language
Russian
Time
1869 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Идиот [The Idiot]." The Russian Messenger, 1868–69.

Current Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Idiot, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky. Vintage, 2003, pt. 1, ch. 6.

Another quote originally in French

Things are always at their best in their beginning.

Blaise Pascal

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Topic
Things get worse

Author

Blaise Pascal
Statement Type
Precepts and axioms
Language
French
Time
1656 1650s 17th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Pascal, Blaise [published as Louis de Montalte]. "February 25, 1656." Les Provinciales ou Les Lettres Escrites [The Provincial Letters]. c. 1657, letter 4.