Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
-Vik Muniz
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
-Charlie Fletcher
"Silvertongue"
