J.Krishnamurti

Beauty is not of time. Like love, it cannot be divided as yesterday, today and tomorrow. When one divides it, there are all the problems of love – jealousy, envy, domination, possessiveness, all the problems that are involved in relationship, in what one calls love. And with that beauty, which is not the result of fragmented time, then painting, music and all the modern gimmicks and tricks have no meaning whatsoever, because anything that is of time, that is of the period, of this century, of this modern revolt and so on, the expression of all that, denies beauty. Beauty cannot be translated in terms of time.

  J.Krishnamurti From Public Talk 8, Saanen, 26 July 1966