The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth. 2.12K
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of imagination – what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not. 2.2K
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its lovliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. 1.27K