The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"Duino Elegies"
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
