“Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.”
Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist
Beim Wort genommen (1955); as translated by Harry Zohn
Source: The Enchanted April
“Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.”
Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist
Beim Wort genommen (1955); as translated by Harry Zohn
“The beauty of love.
The love of beauty.
The greener you are, the wiser you will be.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
“She said it was beautiful to be loved, and that it made everything on earth look brighter.”
Fanny Fern (1811–1872) American writer
Source: Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time
“Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?”
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
“Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest.”
Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.”
William Goldman book The Princess Bride
Source: The Princess Bride
“Love is beautiful only when you are secretly loved by a stranger.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author