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Quotes About Beauty

The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse.
~ Rajneesh
The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
~ Rachel Lambert Mellon
The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.
~ Unknown
Beauty of office, is profession in place
~ Unknown
Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It's enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
~ Claude Monet
For those of us (those that have the desire to explore the world unknown) that grew up going out into the wilds of the world...we got into our souls a sense of beauty.
~ Douglas Tompkins
One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.
~ Unknown
How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers
~ Matsuo Basho
The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.
~ Dan B. Allender
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .
~ Socrates
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
~ Marcel Proust
The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.
~ Barnett Newman
At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.
~ William Shakespeare
Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.
~ C. S. Lewis
The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that.
~ Kate Winslet
There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.
~ Helena Christensen
Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
~ Sylvester Stallone
Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.
~ James Tiptree Jr.
And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.
~ William Shakespeare
All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.
~ Rumi
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the heavenly light.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.
~ James Branch Cabell
I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.
~ Toni Morrison