"Schools and Universities on the Continent" (1868)
“The power of the Latin classic is in character, that of the Greek is in beauty.”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
"Schools and Universities on the Continent" (1868)
“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”
Walter Pater (1839–1894) essayist, art and literature critic, fiction writer
Appreciation, Postscript (1889)
Anatole France book Penguin Island
Book I : The Beginnings, Ch. II : The Apostolical Vocation Of Saint Mael
Penguin Island (1908)
Context: A beautiful fig-tree raised itself in a hollow of the island and thrust forth its branches far and wide. The inhabitants of the island used to worship it.
And the holy Mael said to them: "You worship this tree because it is beautiful. Therefore you are capable of feeling beauty. Now I come to reveal to you the hidden beauty." And he taught them the Gospel. And after having instructed them, he baptized them with salt and water.
“Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.”
Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire
"Cliffrose and Bayonets", p. 37
Source: Desert Solitaire (1968)
Aristide Maillol (1861–1944) sculptor from France
remark to his biographer Judith Cladel (1939 - 1944); as quoted in Dictionary of artists’ models, Jill Berk Jiminez, Taylor and Francis 2001, p. 550
“I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.”
Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer
Bernard Leach (1887–1979) British studio potter and art teacher
A Potters Book (1940) Faber & Faber,London 1978 (reprint of 1940) ISBN 978-0571109739
