Famous Quotes About beauty

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?