Quotes about Beauty

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing. You lost life's secret.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

She has form, he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good.

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

The sky was pure opal now.

And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little people do just the opposite.

They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.