Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
Voltaire

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane Austen

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
James Dean

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
William Blake

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
Marcus Aurelius

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
Stephen Hawking

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Blaise Pascal

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John Keats

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
John Keats

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
John Keats

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
John Keats

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Oliver Wendell Holmes