Quotes About Beauty

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportions.

A woman is natural: that is to say, abominable.

The observer is a prince who enjoys his incognito everywhere. The lover of life makes the world his family, just as the lover of the fair sex devises his family from all discovered, discoverable and undiscoverable beauties; as the lover of pictures lives in an enchanted society of painted dreams on canvas.

Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take liberated flight toward the morning skies --Who hovers over life and understands without effort The language of flowers and voiceless things!

There, there is nothing else but grace and measure,Richness, quietness and pleasure.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

What do I care that you are good?Be beautiful! and be sad!

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

The beautiful is always bizarre.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.

His was the kind of beauty for which you would pay the price of a lifetime of sorrow and all the varieties of rage. Eventually, you would have to go to church to get rid of him.

To the beautiful falls the right of command, he observes, quoting Aristotle, although he adds that this situation is not always just.