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
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
