Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.
The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.
Things are beautiful if you love them.
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its ends.
Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living colour.
The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Exuberance is beauty.
The Nature of This Flower is to bloom.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
