It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Henry James

In art economy is always beauty.
Henry James

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
John Milton

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
Nikos Kazantzakis

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
James Baldwin

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
Joseph Addison

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

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston Bachelard

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Pearl S. Buck

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
Kinky Friedman

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
George Sand

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
Dante Alighieri

Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Dante Alighieri

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Simone Weil

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Simone Weil

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
John Donne

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John Donne

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Christopher Marlowe

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
Christopher Marlowe

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
Percy Bysshe Shelley