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
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 nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
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
