Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
More Quotes by E. M. Forster
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
History develops, art stands still.
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
Unless we remember we cannot understand.