Nature of beauty

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Exuberance is beauty.

William Blake

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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Topic

Exuberance Nature of beauty Beauty

Author

William Blake

Source

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Medium

Poem

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1793 1790s 18th century

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Original Citation

Blake, William. "Proverbs of Hell." The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. c. 1790.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman. University of California Press, 2008.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.

David Hume

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Topic

Nature of beauty Beauty Relativism

Author

David Hume

Source

Of the Standard of Taste Essays, Moral, Political and Literary

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1758 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Hume, David. "Of the Standard of Taste." Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary. Edinburgh: A. Kincaid, 1758, pt. 1, no. 23.

Current Citation

Hume, David. "Of the Standard of Taste." Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary: Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp and Mark A Box. Oxford University Press, 2022, pt. 1, no. 23.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

John Ruskin

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Nature of beauty Beauty Lilies Flowers

Author

John Ruskin

Source

Stones of Venice

Medium

Treatise

Language

English

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

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Ruskin, John. The Stones of Venice. Vol. 1, London: Smith, Edler & Co., 1851, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Ruskin, John. "The Stones of Venice." The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 9, Cambridge University Press, 2010, ch. 2.

It is the very same taste which relishes a demonstration in geometry, that is pleased with the resemblance of a picture to an original, and touched with the harmony of music.

Joshua Reynolds

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Interconnectedness of all things Harmony Beauty of math Nature of beauty Beauty

Speaker

Joshua Reynolds

Source

Discourses on Art

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1776 1770s 18th century

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Citation

Reynolds, Joshua. "Discourse VII." 10 Dec. 1776, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, UK. Lecture.

Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.

Derek Zoolander

Zoolander

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Nature of beauty Beauty

Speaker

Derek Zoolander

Actor

Ben Stiller

Source

Zoolander

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Zoolander. Directed by Ben Stiller, Village Roadshow Productions/VH1 Films/NPV Entertinment/Red Hour Productions/Scott Rudin Productions, 2001.

She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.

Beauty and the Beast

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Topic

Appearance vs. reality Nature of beauty Beauty

Source

Beauty and the Beast

Medium

Film

Genre

Animation (film) Musical (film) Animation Musical

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Beauty and the Beast. Directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Feature Animation/Silver Screen Partners, 1991.

Beauty's but skin deep.

John Davies of Hereford

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Nature of beauty Beauty

Author

John Davies of Hereford

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

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Citation

Davies, John. A Select Second Husband for Sir Thomas Overburie's Wife. London: John Marriott, 1616, st. 13.

I believe that humor is a part of beauty.

Max Beckmann

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Nature of beauty Beauty Humor

Author

Max Beckmann

Source

Journals of Max Beckmann

Medium

Personal journal

Language

German

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Beckmann, Max. "August 23, 1903." Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950, edited by Barbara Copeland Buenger, University of Chicago Press, 1997, p. 27.

The beautiful implies a combination of many different qualities. Strength alone, without elegance, etc., is not beauty. In a single word, the broadest definition would be harmony.

Eugène Delacroix

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Nature of beauty Beauty

Author

Eugène Delacroix

Source

Journals of Eugene Delacroix

Medium

Personal journal

Language

French

Time

1854 1850s 19th century

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Delacroix, Eugène. Undated journal entry. c. 1854.

Current Citation

Delacroix, Eugène. The Journal of Eugène Delacroix: A Selection, translated by Lucy Norton, edited by Hubert Wellington. Phaidon, 1995.