Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Victor Hugo

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
Victor Hugo

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Victor Hugo

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Victor Hugo

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
Leon Battista Alberti

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
Susan Sontag

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. Wells

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
Robert Browning

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
Robert Browning

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
Richard P. Feynman

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Louis Kahn

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
Mike Krzyzewski

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Georgia O'Keeffe

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Edmund Burke

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
William Penn