All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy.
Then donʼt conclude that what is not beautiful is ugly or what is not good is bad.
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
To love beauty is to see light.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
What beauty is, I know not.
A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.
The beautiful: that which we do not want to change.
Beauty is no quality in things themselves : It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them ; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
Does, then, the truly beautiful need anything beyond ?
You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.
We are both of us neighbors of the sky, Madame, Since you are beautiful and I am old.
Today I know how to salute beauty.
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
In my prints I try to show that we live in a beautiful and orderly world and not in a chaos without norms, as we sometimes seem to.
Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
Beauty is mainly no more than simplicity.
Beauty is the harmony of chance and the good.
Nature has a great simplicity and, therefore, a great beauty.
I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
