Quotes About Beauty

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts.

To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves.

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature

The voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Young leaves The sound of a waterfall Heard from far and near.

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

Nature is our chapel.

All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.