The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Do small things with great love.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Brilliant creations are often born of small errors.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

And Polly did n't think she had done much; but it was one of the little things which are always waiting to be done in this world of ours, where rainy days come so often, where spirits get out of tune, and duty won't go hand in hand with pleasure. Little things of this sort are especially good work for little people; a kind little thought, an unselfish little act, a cheery little word, are so sweet and comfortable, that no one can fail to feel their beauty and love the giver, no matter how small they are. Mothers do a deal of this sort of thing, unseen, unthanked, but felt and remembered long afterward, and never lost, for this is the simple magic that binds hearts together, and keeps home happy.

Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art.

I want to find happiness in the tiniest of things - a minute moss plant, 2 cm across, on a rock - and I want to try to do what I've been wanting to do for so long, that is, to copy these infinitesimally small things as precisely as possible and to be aware of their size.

The way to create something beautiful is often to make subtle tweaks to something that already exists, or to combine existing ideas in a slightly new way. This kind of work is hard to convey in a research paper.

Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way

An ordinary object can be elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the mere choice of an artist.