The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own –even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles… but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief –a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.
There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.
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