Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

John Cage

Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.

John Cage

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

Francis Bacon

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Ruby Dee

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within -- strength, courage, dignity.

Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.

Oscar Wilde

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.

Emily Dickinson

Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!

Emily Dickinson

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Ellsworth Huntington

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

Ellis Peters

Beauty is a perilous gift ...

Eckhart Tolle

Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while, one of those present, a monk called Mahakasyapa, began to smile. He is said to have been the only one who had understood the sermon. According to legend, that smile (that is to say, realization) was handed down by twenty-eight successive masters and much later became the origin of Zen.

Aristotle

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

John Keats

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

Kevyn Aucoin

While traveling around the world, I've had the opportunity to work with every living beauty icon. I've learned to appreciate idiosyncrasy. The fact is, there is really no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Holly Black

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Hermann Weyl

Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as we have succeeded in unraveling fully the natural laws which govern reality, we find them to be expressible by mathematical relations of surprising simplicity and architectonic perfection. It seems to me to be one of the chief objects of mathematical instruction to develop the faculty of perceiving this simplicity and harmony.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There's nothing fair nor beautiful, but takes Something from thee, that makes it beautiful.

Henri Rousseau

I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.

Henri Poincare

But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.

Henri Matisse

The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.

Henri Matisse

When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.

These are the beautiful people, who, befitting their rank as gods and goddesses of a powerful modern mythology, lead beautiful lives in beautiful houses, attired in beautiful clothes and, ostensibly, thinking only beautiful thoughts.

Henry Ward Beecher

Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.

Henry Ward Beecher

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

Henry James

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.