Beauty Quotes

“Woman is a ray of God; she is not that earthly beloved; she is creative, not created.”

— Rumi

“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”

— Leonard Bernstein

“Nothing is beautiful from every point of view.”

— Horace

“A horse is a thing of beauty; none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.”

— Xenophon

“Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly like a tea tray in the sky.”

— Lewis Carroll

“The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.”

— Marcel Proust

“To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.”

— Brian Harris

“The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.”

— Felix Mendelssohn

“The greatness of art is not to find what is common, but what is unique.”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“There is nothing more beautiful than a confident woman.”

— Suze Orman

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Poverty to be picturesque should be rural; suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.”

— Anthony Trollope

“Music is the strongest form of magic.”

— Marilyn Manson

“Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.”

— Charles Baudelaire

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

— Francis Bacon

“Land really is the best art.”

— Andy Warhol

“The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.”

— Richard Strauss

“Art seduces, but does not exploit.”

— Mason Cooley

“Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.”

— Carl Sandburg

“A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”

— Walt Whitman

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”

— Edgar Degas

“Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.”

— Pablo Neruda

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”

— Coco Chanel

“Tears are the noble language of the eye.”

— Robert Herrick

“Pink isn't just a color, it's an attitude.”

— Miley Cyrus

“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.”

— Charles Baudelaire

“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility, but through greatness of mind.”

— Aristotle

“I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.”

— Robert Plant

“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“A woman's greatest asset is her beauty.”

— Alex Comfort

“Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.”

— Henri Matisse

“Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt, and bewildered.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.”

— Rashida Jones

“I heard the old, old men say, 'All that's beautiful drifts away like the waters.'”

— William Butler Yeats

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

— Voltaire

“Everything is beautiful. All that matters is to be able to interpret.”

— Camille Pissarro

“Art, as far as it is able, follows nature as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.”

— Dante Alighieri

“If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.”

— Bill Gates

“Dignity and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.”

— Charles Dickens

“Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.”

— Francis Bacon

“A rose is a rose is a rose.”

— Gertrude Stein

“That which God said to the rose and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart and made it a hundred times more beautiful.”

— Rumi

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

— Aristotle

“Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.”

— Michael Faraday

“Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; but only he who sees takes off his shoes.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The bluebird carries the sky on his back.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.”

— Pericles

“Art is the proper task of life.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?”

— Igor Stravinsky

“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.”

— Theodore Dreiser

“All nature is but art, unknown to thee.”

— Alexander Pope

“There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.”

— Audrey Hepburn

“Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry, but it is not so in the West; otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.”

— Om Puri

“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.”

— Jules Verne

“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”

— Aesop

“A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.”

— Ray Bradbury

“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”

— William Morris

“For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.”

— William Blake

“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness; first, that they do their practical duty well; and secondly, that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.”

— John Ruskin

“Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.”

— Jean-Luc Godard

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.”

— Pindar

“I paint flowers so they will not die.”

— Frida Kahlo

“You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen, but if you are beautiful at sixty it will be your soul's own doing.”

— Marie Stopes

“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.”

— René Magritte

“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”

— George Santayana

“When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.”

— Andy Warhol

“I would define in brief the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Music is an outburst of the soul.”

— Frederick Delius

“Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.”

— Coco Chanel

“The bluebird carries the sky on his back.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“An ugly baby is a very nasty object, and the prettiest is frightful.”

— Queen Victoria

“Modesty: The gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.”

— Oliver Herford

“We made the buttons on the screen look so good, you'll want to lick them.”

— Steve Jobs

“I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.”

— Fay Godwin

“Common looking people are the best in the world; that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Form follows beauty.”

— Oscar Niemeyer

“I have never felt salvation in nature, I love cities above all.”

— Michelangelo

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.”

— Martin Luther

“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.”

— John Dryden

“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.”

— Truman Capote

“The earth laughs in flowers.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Painting is but another word for feeling.”

— John Constable

“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”

— Langston Hughes

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

— Douglas Adams

“To love beauty is to see light.”

— Victor Hugo

“Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.”

— Kate Moss

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Sun bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue, that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”

— Albert Camus

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream.”

— Donatella Versace

“Exuberance is beauty.”

— William Blake

“Beauty comes from the inside.”

— Kathy Ireland

“I've always had very Catholic tastes.”

— Ian McKellen

“Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.”

— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

“Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.”

— Bruce Springsteen

“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To me, the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”

— William Wordsworth

“The superfluous, a very necessary thing.”

— Voltaire

“Color is my day-long obsession, joy, and torment.”

— Claude Monet

“There are two kinds of music, the good and the bad. I play the good kind.”

— Louis Armstrong

“Language is wine upon the lips.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Look for the woman in the dress; if there is no woman, there is no dress.”

— Coco Chanel

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”

— Coco Chanel

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.”

— Andy Warhol

“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”

— Francis Bacon

“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“In memory, everything seems to happen to music.”

— Tennessee Williams

“Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.”

— Alfred Austin

“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”

— Walt Whitman

“Flowers are restful to look at; they have neither emotions nor conflicts.”

— Sigmund Freud

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”

— Terry Pratchett

“To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.”

— Edmund Burke

“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.”

— Alice Walker

“She is a peacock in everything but beauty.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

— Aristotle

“Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.”

— Auguste Rodin

“I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings; that's art to me.”

— Maya Lin

“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”

— John Ruskin

“It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

— Albus Dumbledore

“The key to education is the experience of beauty.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.”

— Michelangelo

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”

— Leonard Cohen

“It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.”

— Amelia Barr

“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”

— Confucius

“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”

— Anne Frank

“The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“Travelers, repose and dream among my leaves.”

— William Blake

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”

— Lao Tzu

“Yet it is true: poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Beauty awakens the soul to act.”

— Dante Alighieri

“All art is but imitation of nature.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“A memory is a beautiful thing; it's almost a desire that you miss.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“The essential function of art is moral, but a passionate implicit morality, not didactic; a morality which changes the blood rather than the mind.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“A man's face is his autobiography; a woman's face is her work of fiction.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.”

— Noel Coward

“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.”

— Edmund Burke

“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.”

— Jerzy Kosinski

“I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.”

— Emma Goldman

“The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms under the shadow of cosmic boredom.”

— Guy de Maupassant

“Nature is the art of God.”

— Dante Alighieri

“Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of heaven.”

— John Lubbock

“Where words fail, music speaks.”

— Hans Christian Andersen

“It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.”

— Audrey Hepburn

“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”

— Henry Rollins

“My curves are not crazy.”

— Henri Matisse

“Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business, but above all, good design must primarily serve people.”

— Thomas J. Watson

“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.”

— Kinky Friedman

“She was not quite what you would call refined, she was not quite what you would call unrefined; she was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.”

— Mark Twain

“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”

— Unknown

“It is better to be beautiful than to be good; but it is better to be good than to be ugly.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched; they must be felt with the heart.”

— Helen Keller

“Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.”

— Molière

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

— Pablo Picasso

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”

— Edgar Degas

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.”

— Robert Browning

“All art is quite useless.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Great art picks up where nature ends.”

— Marc Chagall

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”

— Walt Whitman

“Beauty is not caused; it is.”

— Emily Dickinson

“What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.”

— Arnold Palmer

“The good is the beautiful.”

— Plato

“Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.”

— John Donne

“Poetry is thoughts that breathe and words that burn.”

— Thomas Gray

“God Almighty first planted a garden; and indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.”

— Francis Bacon

“Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised except by those to whom it has been refused.”

— Edward Gibbon

“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.”

— Johann Sebastian Bach

“Beauty is everywhere; a welcome guest.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I am among those who think that science has great beauty.”

— Marie Curie

“Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.”

— Juvenal

“If you look deep enough, you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.”

— Jean de La Bruyère

“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.”

— Martin Luther

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”

— Jacques-Yves Cousteau

“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“It's simple: If it jiggles, it's fat.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Life beats down and crushes the soul, and art reminds you that you have one.”

— Stella Adler

“It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.”

— Amelia Barr

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”

— Edgar Degas

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”

— e.e. cummings

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”

— Alice Walker

“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”

— Socrates

“Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.”

— Aeschylus

“A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.”

— Michelangelo

“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”

— Emily Dickinson

“Music is the silence between the notes.”

— Claude Debussy

“There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.”

— Conrad Hall

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

— Victor Hugo

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”

— Steve Martin

“Music is a beautiful opiate if you don't take it too seriously.”

— Henry Miller

“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”

— Havelock Ellis

“Simplicity is the glory of expression.”

— Walt Whitman

“We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences; our beauty is in our differences.”

— Carre Otis

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“My work is not about form follows function, but form follows beauty, or even better, form follows feminine.”

— Oscar Niemeyer

“Color is a power which directly influences the soul.”

— Wassily Kandinsky

“Home is a name, a word; it is a strong one, stronger than magician ever spoke or spirit ever answered to in the strongest conjuration.”

— Charles Dickens

“I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.”

— Wallace Stevens

“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Music is God's gift to man; the only art of heaven given to earth; the only art of earth we take to heaven.”

— Walter Savage Landor

“Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.”

— Cyril Connolly

“I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.”

— Stendhal

“I call architecture frozen music.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.”

— Andy Warhol

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”

— Walt Whitman

“At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”

— Toni Morrison

“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.”

— Camille Pissarro

“Colors are the smiles of nature.”

— Leigh Hunt

“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature; a scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”

— Harry Crews

“Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”

— William Congreve

“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”

— Henri Matisse

“A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own, we have no soul of our own civilization.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”

— Michelangelo

“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”

— Confucius

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”

— Albert Einstein

“A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.”

— Claude Debussy

“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye; it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”

— Edvard Munch

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”

— Pablo Picasso

“The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.”

— Walter Benjamin

“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”

— Aldo Leopold

“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”

— H.G. Wells

“I am following nature without being able to grasp her; I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”

— Claude Monet

“Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.”

— Vincent van Gogh

“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”

— Claude Monet

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Great music is in the ear of the beholder.”

— Noel Gallagher

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”

— Theodore Roethke

“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”

— Hedy Lamarr

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.”

— Loretta Young

“Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.”

— Theodor Adorno

“Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.”

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“The perfection of art is to conceal art.”

— Quintilian

“I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.”

— Christina Aguilera

“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.”

— Thomas Browne

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is geometry in the humming of the strings; there is music in the spacing of the spheres.”

— Pythagoras

“Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry.”

— Charles Baudelaire

“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”

— Philip Johnson

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”

— John Keats

“All things share the same breath—the beast, the tree, the man. The air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.”

— Chief Seattle

“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”

— Paul Cézanne

“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

— Khalil Gibran

“The mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.”

— John Ruskin

“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.”

— William Blake

“Music is a moral law; it gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”

— Plato

“Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.”

— Francis Bacon

“Rhyme that enslaved, queen that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.”

— Victor Hugo

“Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism are all very good words for the lips.”

— Charles Dickens

“Sunlight is painting.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The excellency of every art is its intensity capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”

— John Keats

“What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.”

— Joyce Kilmer

“Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music, no matter what kind it is?”

— Louis Armstrong

“The perception of beauty is a moral test.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my God.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”

— Theodore Roethke

“Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”

— Rumi

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

— Pablo Picasso

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

— Anton Chekhov

“Modesty is the color of virtue.”

— Diogenes

“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.”

— George Washington Carver

“There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Love of beauty is taste; the creation of beauty is art.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges: one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”

— Virginia Woolf

“The crown of literature is poetry.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

— John Keats

“Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.”

— Liv Tyler

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

— Oliver Platt

“A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.”

— Paul Klee

“Space is the breath of art.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.”

— André Breton

“God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.”

— Paul Dirac

“When words leave off, music begins.”

— Heinrich Heine

“In the total darkness, poetry is still there and it is there for you.”

— Abbas Kiarostami

“I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.”

— Henri Matisse

“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.”

— Gerard de Nerval

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the Sun.”

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

“A picture is a poem without words.”

— Horace

“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

— Franz Kafka

“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”

— Coco Chanel

“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”

— David Hume

“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

— Franz Kafka

“The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.”

— William Shakespeare

“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.”

— Rumi

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