Quotes About Beauty

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

Everyone longs to be free. Freedom is our essential nature, so my ultimate prayer is that the world is set free to experience the truth and the beauty of our own being.

The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.

All things reflect the divine energy of nature—every flower, every rock, every sound, every sight. Once we realize that truth, we cannot help but smile.

Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it.

It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.

To tell you the truth I love Sam. It's not a movie kind of love either. I just look at her sometimes and I think she is the prettiest and nicest person in the whole world.

Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her.

This is truth the poet sings . . .

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton.

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.

Nothing feels sexier than wearing the beautiful truth.