Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
Charles Baudelaire

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
Charles Baudelaire

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

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
Lewis Mumford

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

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

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

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
Cat Stevens

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

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

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

Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Dante Alighieri

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
Jack London

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

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
Galileo Galilei

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
Toni Morrison

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
Homer

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.
Julia Margaret Cameron