Quotes about Perception of Beauty
What's beauty if it's not, in the end, true? Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty.
- John Updike
Beauty, like justice, slips through our fingers. We photograph the sunset, but all we get is the memory of the moment, not the moment itself. We buy the recording, but the symphony says something different when we listen to it at home.
- NT Wright
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
- Oscar Wilde
Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
- Pablo Picasso
As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,
- Genesis 12:11
Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.
- Genesis 29:17
In practice I think it's easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. Most of the people who've made beautiful things seem to have done it by fixing something they thought ugly.
- Paul Graham
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
- Victor Hugo
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is in the eye of the Creator.
- AW Tozer
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson