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Quotes About Beauty

If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.
~ Mark Twain
Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
~ Henri Matisse
Beauty can only fight the truth for so long.
~ Soman Chainani
Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth in her fair page.
~ William C. Bryant
Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.
~ Robert Browning
Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.
~ Jack Gantos
It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.
~ Walker Percy
My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?
~ Jane Austen, Emma
The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Within the oyster's shell uncouth The purest pearl may hide, Trust me you'll find a heart of truth Within that rough outside.
~ Frances Sargent Osgood
If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.
~ William Wordsworth
My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.
~ Nikki Jean
There is but one poetry,--true poetry.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That is the beauty of memory, isn't it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
~ Thomas Carlyle
From the beauty they deserve will come the love they deserve. And from the love will follow truth.
~ Alex Shakar
Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
~ Alexander Pope
The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
~ Andre Gide
Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon.
~ Anne Rice
Lying - remembering beauty in truth.
~ Beatrice Sparks
In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could.
~ Cheryl Strayed
The truth is that the poems are ecstatic.
~ Derek Walcott