Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
Quotations
Beauty
The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
-Vik Muniz
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
-Charlie Fletcher
"Silvertongue"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
