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Quotes About Beauty

One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.
~ Mark Twain
If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.
~ Annie Dillard
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
~ Stendhal
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The wonders of nature are endless.
~ Walt Disney
A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
~ Charles Lamb
Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
~ Walt Whitman
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature
~ Auguste Rodin
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
~ James F. Cooper
Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.
~ Benvenuto Cellini
Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.
~ Charlie Chaplin
Nature is beautiful, not because it changes beautifully, but simply because it changes.
~ Nam June Paik
I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.
~ Gordon Willis
They do say breastfeeding is nature's lipo.
~ Ana Ortiz
Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!
~ Henry David Thoreau
Immerse yourself in nature's symphony and let your senses burst with joy.
~ Tom Brown, Jr.
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
~ Hannah Arendt
Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.
~ George Santayana