We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
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
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-Margaret Cho
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
