Top 100 Beauty Is The Quotes
#2. Beauty is the result of clarity and system and not of optical illusion.
Henry Van De Velde
#3. Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.
Michel De Montaigne
#4. Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#5. Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.
Karl Marx
#6. He(E.A.Poe) cannot be blamed for not saying clearly what beauty is. The greatest philosophers in the world acknowledge in the end that the best one can do is to recognize it when it is there.
Etienne Gilson
#7. Beauty is the flower of virtue.
Plutarch
#8. Beauty is the splendour of truth
Plato
#10. God's pleasure
the beauty creation possesses in his regard
underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word concerning all that appears within being; beauty is the showing of what is; God looked upon what he had wrought and saw that it was good.
David Bentley Hart
#11. Beauty is the spirit of the soul. Beauty is the spirit of love.
Saba Tekle
#12. Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
Rollo May
#13. The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.
Leo Tolstoy
#14. Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives it more transparent forms. It is here that art, when it knows well its power and resources, engages in a struggle with nature in which it may have the advantage.
Victor Cousin
#15. You act like beauty is the only thing that makes us worthy of love.
Amy Harmon
#17. Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.
Robert Barron
#19. The most irresistible beauty is the radiant glow from a kind and gentle heart.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#20. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
Agnes Martin
#21. Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.
Vincent McNabb
#23. Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.
Amit Ray
#24. God is the most beautiful, and beauty is the expression of God. If you can't appreciate beauty in the world how can you understand God?
Amit Ray
#25. ALIF: Painting brings to life what the mind sees, as a feast for the eyes.
LAM: What the eye sees in the world enters the painting to the degree that it serves the mind.
MIM: Consequently, beauty is the eye discovering in our own world what the mind already knows.
Orhan Pamuk
#26. Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Socrates
#27. Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru' the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man.
Robert Bridges
#28. Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of art.
Orlan
#29. In understanding what beauty is, we shall know love, for the understanding of beauty is the peace of the heart.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#30. Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they announce God, by which they sing, It is you who made me beautiful, not me myself but you.
Saint Augustine
#31. Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
Oscar Wilde
#32. Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently ... Can words describe the indescribable?
Rumi
#34. The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart; to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature.
Ambrose Bierce
#38. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
~Waddington
W. Somerset Maugham
#39. Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.
Joan Chen
#40. Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.
James Joyce
#41. I hide you inside me because I have found, beauty is the illumination of the mind ...
John Geddes
#42. The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
Edwin Way Teale
#44. Beauty is the reflection of a loving heart, not the quality of an object or subject.
Debasish Mridha
#45. I think beauty is the splendor of truth, so if the people I portray think they're beautiful, they're beautiful. I don't make them that way.
Michael Glawogger
#46. It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp ... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#48. Beauty is the replication and duplication of mind's delusion. It is not uniqueness or exceptionality; it is the mentality of belonging and fitting in.
M.F. Moonzajer
#51. Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.
Robert Henri
#52. Beauty is the promise of happiness. And the only happiness is action.
...
Fate is the path of least action.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#53. Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.
James Tiptree Jr.
#55. Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.
Pope John Paul II
#56. The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#58. Beauty is the result of realizing what is special about you and not focusing on the things you don't like.
Bobbi Brown
#59. Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.
Alvar Aalto
#60. Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#61. Beauty is the advertisement of the existence. Its purpose is to make you hold the existence tightly.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.
Paulo Coelho
#63. For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#64. The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.
Francis Quarles
#65. You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
Agatha Christie
#66. In art, vitality is the chaotic initial state; beauty is the cosmic final state.
Chairil Anwar
#67. The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
William Hazlitt
#69. The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
G.H. Hardy
#70. Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.
Vidal Sassoon
#72. Beauty is the wilderness of sensual perception where we always want to get lost.
Debasish Mridha
#74. Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
Boris Pasternak
#75. It's such an ugly time, beauty is the real protest.
Robert Haas
#77. Her beauty is the least of her dower-and she is the most beautiful woman I've ever known. That laugh of hers! I've angled all summer to evoke that laugh, just for the delight of hearing it.
L.M. Montgomery
#78. Strangeness which is the essence of beauty is the essence of truth, and the essence of the world. I have often felt that; when the ascent of a long hill brought me to the summit of an undiscovered height in London; and I looked down on a new land.
Arthur Machen
#79. Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.
Emily Prager
#81. Seems like the only one who doesn't see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you.
Taylor Swift
#85. Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
Jean Genet
#86. Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Fay Weldon
#90. Love is the experience that others are not others. Beauty is the experience that objects are not objects.
Rupert Spira
#95. Beauty is the love that we devote to an object.
Paul Serusier
#96. Beauty is the mind, heart and balls of the person seeking to be beautiful.
Milton Katselas
#97. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders ... It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
Oscar Wilde
