Beholder Quotes - Page 3

• No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

  Walter Benjamin

  Symphony, Reader, Listeners

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In images,... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded in the pleasure of the beholder begged the question of their efficacy and doomed itself to inconsequence.

  Dave Hickey

  Agency, Pleasure, Theory

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• Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Design, Events

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• Humans have a saying that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", which basically means that if you think it's beautiful, then it is beautiful. The elfin version of this saying was composed by the great poet B.O Selecta, who said "Even the plainest of the plain shall deign to reign", which critics have always thought was a bit rhymey. The dwarf version of this maxim is "If it don't stink, marry it", which is slightly less romantic, but the general gist is the same.

  Eoin Colfer

  Beautiful, Mean, Eye

  Eoin Colfer (2014). “Artemis Fowl:”, p.865, Penguin UK

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• The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty, how the art makes that happen, is a whole other subject. Beauty is an event. Beauty is something that happens. There is no such thing as a beautiful object or a beautiful woman.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Beautiful, Art, Eye

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Art, Function, Known

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• Over the years, autism has almost been a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder, which allows for all kinds of arguments and dissension and theories and competing therapies to come into play.

  John Donvan

  Eye, Years, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think optimism is in the eyes of the beholder.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Eye, Thinking, Optimism

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• What's good and bad, sweet spirit, are in the eye of the beholder.

  Jim Goad

  Sweet, Eye, Spirit

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I am blunt sometimes; I am diplomatic sometimes; I am all things in between. Abrasive, you know, I guess it's in the eye of the beholder.

  Susan Rice

  Eye, Sometimes, Blunt

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I don't think it is even possible to define what a good photograph is, so it is difficult to instruct anybody how to make one. Beauty and aesthetics are subjective, and very much in the mind of the beholder.

  Michael Kenna

  Thinking, Mind, Photograph

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• Beauty is very much in the mind of the beholder.

  Michael Kenna

  Mind

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• It is irrational to charge high prices for socially valuable innovations as this guarantees that they will be underutilized. It is much better to sell them at cost and then to reward the innovator in some other way. This is not always possible, because in some cases the value of an innovation is in the eye of the beholder; it's very difficult to value how much a new Madonna song is worth, for example. But in the case of medicines, green technologies and seeds in agriculture, such an alternative reward mechanism is fairly straightforward.

  Thomas Pogge

  Song, Eye, Technology

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

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• The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven. He kisseth the wheel that must kill him; and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom but so many degrees of his ascent to glory. The tormentors are weary of him. the beholders have pitty on him, all men wonder at him; and while he seems below all men, below himself, he is above nature. He hath so overcome hlmself that nothing can conquer him.

  Thomas Adams

  Peace, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Adams (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.728

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• A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment - the Zen sense oof the alone.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Simple, Sea, Fishing

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• Gay and costly apparel directly tends to create and influence lust.... The fact is plain and undeniable, it has the effect both on the wearer and beholder. You kindle a flame, which, at the same time consumes both yourself and your admirers.

  John Wesley

  Gay, Flames, Lust

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• Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave.

  Fatema Mernissi

  Eye, Frozen, Slave

  Fatema Mernissi (2001). “Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Art, Self, Wonder

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• Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.

  Greg Egan

  Islands, Self, Inventory

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• History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.

  Desmond Tutu

  Fall, Thinking, Example

  Desmond Tutu (1985). “Hope and Suffering”, Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Eye, Art Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Importance, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder and that there is nothing inherently "logical" about the preference of users in looking for one component rather than another of a compound heading.

  Hans H Wellisch

  Eye, Logical, Preference

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• Only the beautiful can acknowledge all that is beautiful, and only the ugly can acknowledge all that is ugly as being beautiful. Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

  Suzy Kassem

  Beautiful, Heart, Ugly

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• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Should the beholder have poor eyesight, he can ask the nearest person which girls look good. Beauty is in the hand of the beer holder. Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

  Al Bernstein

  Girl, Eye, Heart

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