Quotes About Beauty

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.

In my loving dying heart a twilight is coming, a last ray, gently reproaching. from Stone: 24 By Osip Mandelstam Translated by Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin

És bela. Estar contigo é um dom como o de ver, como o dom de ouvir. Insensato seria estar junto de ti e não fruir o que és.

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy a strength a secret cup of gladness.

At the foundation of Jesus Christ's kingdom is the genuine loveliness of those who are commonplace.

Lord God Omniscient, give me wisdom this day to worship and work aright and be well pleasing to Thee. Lord, interpret Thyself to me more and more in fulness and beauty.

O Lord, I am distressed at my slow manifestation of any of the beauty of holiness that might express my unspeakable gratitude for Thy salvation, such lack of the winsome. O Lord, cause me by looking to Thee to be radiant.

To Goethe again we owe the profound saying: "the mathematician is only complete insofar as he feels within himself the beauty of the true.

Von Goethe stammt auch das tiefe Wort, daß der Mathematiker nur insofern vollkommen sei, als er das Schöne des Wahren in sich empfinde.

To Goethe we owe the profound saying: 'The mathematician is only complete insofar as he feels within himself the beauty of the true'. Here we feel how nearly the secret of number is related to the secret of artistic creation. Mathematics, then, are an art. The development of the great arts ought never to be treated without an (assuredly not unprofitable) side-glance at contemporary mathematics.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Whatever good I have kept in me—and in the world it is very hard to keep any—I owe it to Ben on those still Sunday mornings in those deep, old, quiet, green woods.

I remembered Ben's words when I also entered that abomination of desolation—the eastern half of the city of labor. In the little cottage in the pine wood, even in the dreariness of winter and under the drag of poverty, there had been beauty—beauty in the white, smooth, glittering enow;

Where grave philosophers have watched the setting sun die out of the sky, as the glories of their own youth have died away unvalued, till lost for ever. Where ascetic reading-men have mooned along its banks blind to all the loveliness of the water-lily below, or the clouds above, as they took their constitutional and pondered their prize essay.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. Victor Hugo

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

Run slowly, horses of the night.

Beauty is a fragile gift.

Venus favors the bold.

Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

My mama told me don't trust no white boy, even a pretty one. I'm thinkin' a pretty white boy with wings explodin' up from the ground in a mess of blood and ugly-ass bird things is double trouble." - Kramisha (Ch 5)