The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is where you find it.
-Madonna
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; follow the straight line, thou shalt see the curved line ever follow thee.
-William Maccall
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
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"
