beauty Quotes

To love beauty is to see light.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

You're beautiful, like a May fly.