Quotes about Beauty

Have you ever thought that the only ugl things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.

Hide me from day's garish eye, while the bee with honied thigh, that at her flowery work doth sing, and the waters murmuring with such consort as they keep, entice the dewy-feathered sleep.

I'm from Italy, the home of Vivaldi, Rossini, Puccini. When I stopped playing and became a manager, football became like a beautiful piece of music to me - and the players, an orchestra.

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart

Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich

Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.