Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint Augustine

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine

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

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

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes

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

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

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

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

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

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

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

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
Joan Rivers

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Rumi