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Beholder Quotes

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David Hume
“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays

“Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Some see an innocent victim. Others will see evil incarnate getting exactly what's deserved.”
Emily Thorne

Jaeda DeWalt
“Creativity connects me to my truest self and vulnerability. There is nothing more personally liberating, than reaching for my face and peeling off the social mask that hides my; shadow self, pain and weakness. When i produce from this place of truth, the results transform both creator and beholder.”
Jaeda DeWalt

Toba Beta
“The quality of beauty lies on
how beholder values an object.”
Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Peter Ackroyd
“The value is always in the eye of the beholder. What is worthless to one person may be very important to someone else.”
Peter Ackroyd, Chatterton

“Beauty is where the beheld butterfly
disappears from sight.”
R.H. Peat

Erwin Panofsky
“These two developments throw light on what is perhaps the most fundamental difference between the Renaissance and all previous periods of art. We have repeatedly seen that there were these circumstances which could compel the artist to make a distinction between the "technical" proportions and the "objective;" the influence of organic movement, the influence of perspective foreshortening, and the regard for the visual impression of the beholder. These three factors of variation have one thing in common: they all presuppose the artistic recognition of subjectivity. Organic movement introduces into the calculus of artistic composition the subjective will and the subjective emotions of the thing represented; foreshortening the subjective visual experience of the artist; and those "eurhythmic" adjustments which alter that which is right in favor of what seems right, the subjective visual experience of a potential beholder. And it is the Renaissance which, for the first time, not only affirms but formally legitimizes and rationalizes these three forms of subjectivity.”
Erwin Panofsky, Meaning in the Visual Arts

Kate Morton
“...as I already said, they didn't look like much--but beauty's in the eye of the beholder, isn't it?”
Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
Margaret Wolfe

“Order is a slippery thing: it's in the eyes of the beholder and the judgments of the powerful. Safety is clearer: it's freedom from violence and intrusion.”
Chris Hayes, A Colony in a Nation

Amit Abraham
“Beauty Is In The Mind of The Beholder.”
Amit Abraham

Jonathan Renshaw
“Without imagination, things were only as they appeared - and that was blindness. Things were more than they appeared, so much more. When he considered an oak tree, it was not just a tree. To someone small, like an ant, it was a whole landscape of rugged barky cliffs and big green leaf-plains that quaked when the sky was restless, a place of many strange creatures where fearsome winged beasts could pluck and devour someone in a blink.”
Jonathan Renshaw, Dawn of Wonder

Tom Cardamone
“If beauty was in the eye of the beholder, he was going to be one hell of a beholder.”
Tom Cardamone, Night Sweats

“Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder and also of the holder of the eyes!”
Ankala Subbarao

R.A. Salvatore
“Not one but three rays came forth in response, each splitting to strike at Zak and at Galathae.

The first made him feel heavy, as if his limbs were wrapped in thick metal.

The second made him realize that he couldn’t win and should flee for his life.

The third showed him the truth of the world, that the real monster here was Galathae, and so he should strike at her! But he looked at her, bathed in holy light, serene and yet focused in her efforts to resist the rays—the same rays that had hit him.”
R.A. Salvatore, Lolth's Warrior

“Most beauty lies in the LIES of the beholder!”
Ashok Kallarakkal