Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Beauty
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-Franz Kafka
