
„I always find beauty in things that are odd & imperfect - they are much more interesting.“
— Marc Jacobs American fashion designer 1963
Zdroj: The Summer I Turned Pretty
— Marc Jacobs American fashion designer 1963
— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962
— Amy Bloom Fiction writer, screenwriter, social worker, psychotherapist 1953
Free to Be Me: Becoming the Young Woman God Created You to Be
— Dejan Stojanovic poet, writer, and businessman 1959
Mastery http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mastery-2/
From the poems written in English
— Joseph Addison politician, writer and playwright 1672 - 1719
No. 291 (2 February 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962
— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890
— Anaïs Nin writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903 - 1977
— Baruch Spinoza Dutch philosopher 1632 - 1677
Letter to Hugo Boxel (Oct. 1674) The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza (1891) Tr. R. H. M. Elwes, Vol. 2, Letter 58 (54).
Kontext: Beauty, my dear Sir, is not so much a quality of the object beheld, as an effect in him who beholds it. If our sight were longer or shorter, or if our constitution were different, what now appears beautiful to us would seem misshapen, and what we now think misshapen we should regard as beautiful. The most beautiful hand seen through the microscope will appear horrible. Some things are beautiful at a distance, but ugly near; thus things regarded in themselves, and in relation to God, are neither ugly nor beautiful. Therefore, he who says that God has created the world, so that it might be beautiful, is bound to adopt one of the two alternatives, either that God created the world for the sake of men's pleasure and eyesight, or else that He created men's pleasure and eyesight for the sake of the world. Now, whether we adopt the former or the latter of these views, how God could have furthered His object by the creation of ghosts, I cannot see. Perfection and imperfection are names which do not differ much from the names beauty and ugliness.<!--p. 382
— Harriet Beecher Stowe Abolitionist, author 1811 - 1896
Attributed
— Louisa May Alcott American novelist 1832 - 1888
Varianta: The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
— Gerard Manley Hopkins English poet 1844 - 1889
"On the Origin of Beauty: A Platonic Dialogue"
Letters, etc
— Erich Maria Remarque, kniha Tři kamarádi
Zdroj: Three Comrades
— Henry James American novelist, short story author, and literary critic 1843 - 1916
Letter to H.G. Wells (10 July 1915).
— Libba Bray, kniha The Sweet Far Thing
Zdroj: The Sweet Far Thing