My Quest for Beauty Quotes

“Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.”
― Rollo May, My Quest for Beauty

“Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.”
― Rollo May, My Quest for Beauty

“Beneath our loquacious chatter, there is a silent language…Our common human language is not…something to do with vocal cords and speech. It is, rather, our sense of proportion, our balance, harmony and other aspects of simple and fundamental form.”
― Rollo May, My Quest for Beauty

“Beneath our loquacious chatter, there is a silent
language…Our common human language is not…something to do with vocal
cords and speech. It is, rather, our sense of proportion, our balance, harmony
and other aspects of simple and fundamental form.”
― Rollo May, My Quest for Beauty