Quotes About Beauty

[A personÂ's] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.

Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.

Nature is usually wrong.

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

Art brings out the grand lines of nature.

Every realm of nature is marvelous.

What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt.

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.

Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

Find a beautiful place inside the nature and refresh yourself over there; how well you repose will mostly determine how far you can go in this universe!

Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.

You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!

We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.

There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.

The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.

Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.