Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Beauty
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; follow the straight line, thou shalt see the curved line ever follow thee.
-William Maccall
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"Duino Elegies"
Being beautiful is accomplished everytime you don't wear make-up.
-Anonymous
Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.
-Alex Flinn
"Beastly"
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
