Baldassare Castiglione famous quotes

04-26-2025

Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and without its being thought about. It is from this, in my opinion, that grace largely derives.
-- Baldassare Castiglione

#Art #Attitude #Effort
Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which the soul can be recognized for what it is, just as with trees the beauty of the blossom testifies to the goodness of the fruit.
-- Baldassare Castiglione

#Tree #Soul #Degrees
Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.
-- Baldassare Castiglione

#Design #Effort #Done
Men demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great.
-- Baldassare Castiglione

#Men #Littles #Little Things
Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that has transgressed is to wrong him that transgresses not.
-- Baldassare Castiglione

#Mistake #Fall #Thinking
Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body.
-- Baldassare Castiglione

#Spiritual #Philosophy #Sleep
I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away from affectation at all costs, as if it were a rough and dangerous reef, and (to use perhaps a novel word for it) to practise in all things a certain nonchalance [sprezzatura] which conceals all artistry and makes whatever one says or does seem uncontrived and effortless.
-- Baldassare Castiglione

#Doe #Cost #Use
Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace.
-- Baldassare Castiglione

#Effort #Grace #Obvious
Beauty, I believe, comes from God; therefore, there can be no beauty without goodness.
-- Baldassare Castiglione

#Beauty #Believe #I Believe

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesnâ€™t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.
It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.
I never had a low self-esteem that would make me gay. At one point, though, the reverse happened. Being homosexual led me to have a loss of self-esteem when I first became aware of society's attitudes about homosexuality.
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.
I began to study again, and now for the first time really achieved an understanding of the content of the Jew Karl Marx's life effort. Only now did his Capital become really intelligible to me, and also the struggle of the Social Democracy against the national economy, which aims only to prepare the ground for the domination of truly international finance and stock exchange capital.
My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.
"We will coordinate efforts of the PLO with responsible authorities in Jordan in all fields - politically, militarily and materially..." "It was very probable that the Jordan army might start the battle."

Baldassare Castiglione famous quotes

You may also like: