Quotes About Beauty

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

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.

The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.

Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear...

Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.

To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!

What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.

Charlotte's Web Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical.

Nature's constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There's only love.

When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is more aesthetic than the natural beauty.

There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

If you go out and watch nature closely, you will find something so joyful that it will completely fill you.

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.