Best 5193 quotes in «beauty quotes» category

The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love.

The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.

The evolution of the New Era rests on the cornerstone of Knowledge and Beauty.

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far.

The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.

The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.

The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

The first day of the rest of my life.

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.

The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.

The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.

The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.

The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

The highest Beauty should be plain set.

The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew.

The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.

The heart of God loves a persevering worshipper who, though overwhelmed by many troubles, is overwhelmed even more by the beauty of God.

The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection.

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

The human heart yearns for the beautiful in all ranks of life. The beautiful things that God makes are His gift to all alike. I know there are many of the poor who have fine feeling and a keen sense of the beautiful, which rusts out and dies because they are too hard pressed to procure it any gratification.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed to the empty. The trite objects of human efforts — possessions, outward success, luxury—have always seemed to me contemptible.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth.

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

The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

The idea which man forms of beauty imprints itself throughout his attire, rumples or stiffens his garments, rounds off or aligns his gestures, and, finally, even subtly penetrates the features of his face.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,-- It wavers to a rose.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.

The love I have for our wildlife is so great, it fills my world. After Black Saturday I saw a world that was black and white, void of animals and humans. What I missed most was the love and life of living with the wildlife. Each day I think of the ones gone and there is a deep hole in my heart. I did not miss the humans or the sounds they make, I missed the animals the sounds of peace and love that came from them. Such beauty and harmony with nature, only animals can be that smart.

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.

The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one has ever been able to explain why the Doric temple of Paestum is more beautiful than a glass of cold beer except by bringing in considerations that have nothing to do with beauty.

The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.