A Quote by Charles Baudelaire
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.
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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.
The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.
A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of terror. Like an artist, the man creating terror should be detached, cold-blooded. He must keep in mind that the energy of the terror he releases can consume him.
The artist in me cries out for design.
A duel, a duel, a duel. Is there anything more exciting, more romantic ... or more utterly moronic?
Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
We are in a struggle against the forces of radical Islam and terror, which must be defeated for our children and our grandchildren.
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
We've been beaten before but never defeated. Tonight we were defeated.
The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.
Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its great mathematical beauty. This is a quality which cannot be defined, any more than beauty in art can be defined, but which people who study mathematics usually have no difficulty in appreciating.
Terror can never be defeated by force alone.
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there.
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