Quotes on Beauty

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Lover's words: “How beautiful you are, now that you love me.”

Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

All things of beauty can speak to us of God, and I'm very happy to listen to and be inspired by people of every religious background.

I think no matter what you look like, the key is to first of all be happy with yourself. And then you know if you want to try to improve things that you don't like about yourself, then do it after your appreciate yourself.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

Winter Song The browns, the olives, and the yellows died, And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed Each dawn and set of sun till Christmastide, And when the land lay pale for them, pale-snowed, Fell back, and down the snow-drifts flamed and flowed. From off your face, into the winds of winter, The sun-brown and the summer-gold are blowing; But they shall gleam with spiritual glinter, When paler beauty on your brows falls snowing, And through those snows my looks shall be soft-going.