Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Beauty
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"
One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
