“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”

“It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.”

Wallace Stegner book Crossing to Safety

“All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”

Irving Stone (1903–1989) American writer

“Art is most simply and most usually defined as an attempt to create pleasing forms. Such forms satisfy our sense of beauty and the sense of beauty is satisfied when we are able to appreciate a unity or harmony of formal relations among our sense-perceptions.”

Herbert Read (1893–1968) English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art

“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.”

Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832) British priest and writer

“Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.”

Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist

“A friendship that like love is warm;
A love like friendship, steady.”

Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter

“You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. In the course of my history, not love or marriage so much as friendship has promoted growth.”

Mary McCarthy (1912–1989) American writer

“I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love… I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul