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

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
Paul Klee

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

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
Aldo Leopold

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
John Ruskin

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Benjamin Disraeli

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Thomas Carlyle

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Paul Gauguin

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
Vernon Howard

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
John Kenneth Galbraith

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
Meryl Streep

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
Baltasar Gracian

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

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
Neil Gaiman

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
Christian Dior

Beauty is a fragile gift.
Ovid

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
Ovid

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Maria Montessori