“You believe that I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.”

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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

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German scientist, satirist 1742–1799

Richard Rodgers

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella

“I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.”

Wallace Stevens book Harmonium

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Harmonium (1923)

“Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

Libretto for the opera The Mother Of Us All by Virgil Thomson (1947), from Last Operas and Plays (1949)

“I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

“I do believe in shooting the messenger.
You know why? Because it sends a message.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: The Awakening / The Struggle

“I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of nothing more beautiful than the hawthorn, for I wish to remain sincere and because I know that the beauty of a painting does not depend on the things represented in it. I shall not collect images of hawthorn. I do not venerate hawthorn, I go to see and smell it.”

Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French novelist, critic, and essayist

Preface (1910) to The Bible of Amiens by John Ruskin, translated by Proust (1904); from Marcel Proust: On Reading Ruskin, trans. Jean Autret and Philip J. Wolfe (Yale University Press, 1987, ISBN 0-300-04503-4, p. 57