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"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
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"
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 when you don't care about how you look, but rather about how you act, and that makes all the difference.
-Khadijah Bagais
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.
-James Patterson
"Sundays at Tiffany's"
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
