Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.Thomas Jefferson
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.Voltaire
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.Voltaire
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.Stephen Hawking
Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.Stephen Hawking