“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.”
“The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.”
“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?”
“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.”
“Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.”
“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.”
“It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.”
“Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.”
“You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.”
“No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.”
“To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.”
“It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty.”
“The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.”
“There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.”
“I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!”
“The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.”
“Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.”
“What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.”
“Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.”
“To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.”
“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?”
“There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes can trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise.”
“The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.”
“Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.”
“By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.”
“My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.”
“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.”
“A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.”
“Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.”
“The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.”