Quotes About Beauty

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway

The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone.

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

For those moments when it's just you and the rock and the ice and the snow, life always makes sense.

It's a beautiful heart, not a perfect body, that leads to a beautiful life.

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life's essential absurdity.

If you're upset with how you look at 25, life's going to be tough.

You've got every right to a beautiful life

Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart

People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)

The darker the night, the brighter the stars.

A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.

It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

You've never in your life seen a horse run like this! He's all power - all beauty.

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?

We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.

I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and squirrels. I hear the life of the trees this wood came from.

The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.

Make something beautiful of your life.

So long as we find anything beautiful, we feel that we have not yet exhausted what [life] has to offer […] That forward-looking element is … inseparable from the judgment of beauty.

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.