Beauty Quotes

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree the artist is in accord withhimself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, if you were a regular black; and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders.

It was his beauty that had ruined him, his beauty and the youth that he had prayed for. But for those two things, his life might have been free from stain. His beauty had been to him but a mask, his youth but a mockery. What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods and sickly thoughts. Why had he worn its livery? Youth had spoiled him.

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses.

...since sometimes beauty gives back the images of one’s best thoughts.

The function of beauty is joy-making.