A Few Quotes on Beauty

• Three quotes for the day dealing with beauty. And one of my favorite pieces to accompany them. Although titled Adagio in G minor by Albinoni, Remo Giazotto first published this in 1958….the name is quite misleading….nonetheless it is still beautiful.
• Adagio in G minor by Albinoni
• 1.Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. ~…Ralph Ellison, “Battle Royal……”
• 2.I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness. ~Karl Lagerfeld
• 3. Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844