„Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.“
Hazrat Inayat Khan2
sufischer Mystiker 1882 - 1927Ähnliche Zitate
— Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Banksyhttp://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2018739.stm
Variante: Some people want to make the world a better place. I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!
Quelle: Wall and Piece (2005)
„All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.“
— Joseph Joubert French moralist and essayist 1754 - 1824
— Cheryl Strayed, buch Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Quelle: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
— Saul Leiter American photographer 1923 - 2013
Saul Leiter: The Quiet Iconoclast (2009)
Kontext: I never thought of the urban environment as isolating. I leave these speculations to others. It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesn’t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty. I realize that the search for beauty is not highly popular these days. Agony, misery and wretchedness, now these are worth perusing.
— Noel Coward English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer 1899 - 1973
Interview with Walter Harris in 1960 reported in The Times (26 May 2009).
„The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.“
— Rachel Carson American marine biologist and conservationist 1907 - 1964
„Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.“
— Platón, buch Phaedrus
279 – a prayer of Socrates, as portrayed in the dialogue.
Phaedrus
Kontext: Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.
„Well fare she, well! As perfect beauty fares;
And those high places, that are beauty's home.“
— Lionel Johnson English poet 1867 - 1902
"Oxford"
Kontext: p>Ill times may be; she hath no thought of time:
She reigns beside the waters yet in pride.
Rude voices cry: but in her ears the chime
Of full, sad bells brings back her old springtide. Like to a queen in pride of place, she wears
The splendour of a crown in Radcliffe's dome.
Well fare she, well! As perfect beauty fares;
And those high places, that are beauty's home.</p
„Beauty takes us to a space that is ineffable, a place of secrets.“
— Subhash Kak Indian computer scientist 1947
Interview The Hindu, 2014
Miscellaneous
„You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.“
— Kamila Shamsie Pakistani writer 1973
Quelle: Kartography
— George William Russell Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter 1867 - 1935
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Kontext: We and it and all together flashing through the starry spaces
In a tempest dream of beauty lighting up the place of places.
Half our eyes behold the glory: half within the spirit's glow
Echoes of the noiseless revels and the will of beauty go.
By a hand of fire uplifted—to her star-strewn palace brought,
To the mystic heart of beauty and the secret of her thought:
— Paul P. Enns American theologian 1937
Quelle: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 19
— Robert Fulghum American writer 1937
Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door (2001), p. 43, frameless QOTD 2008·06·04 Sound file
— Edward Abbey, buch Desert Solitaire
"The First Morning", p. 1
Desert Solitaire (1968)
Kontext: This is the most beautiful place on earth.
There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary. A houseboat in Kashmir, a view down Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, a gray gothic farmhouse two stories high at the end of a red dog road in the Allegheny Mountains, a cabin on the shore of a blue lake in spruce and fir country, a greasy alley near the Hoboken waterfront, or even, possibly, for those of a less demanding sensibility, the world to be seen from a comfortable apartment high in the tender, velvety smog of Manhattan, Chicago, Paris, Tokyo, Rio, or Rome — there's no limit to the human capacity for the homing sentiment.
„Elysian beauty, melancholy grace,
Brought from a pensive though a happy place.“
— William Wordsworth, Laodamia
Stanza 16.
Laodamia (1814)
