Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Beauty
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-Margaret Cho
