Quotes About Beauty

75 quotes

Polish-born French physicist and chemist

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

French Canadian singer

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

Irish novelist and poet

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

American theoretical physicist

I learned from her that every woman is worriedabout her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.

— Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church

Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

American rapper, record producer and actor

Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you.

French actress, singer, animal rights activist

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012

During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.

American actor

I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and beautiful eyes.

Prime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020

Japan's beautiful seas and its territory are under threat, and young people are having trouble finding hope in the future amid economic slump. I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.

American philosopher

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

— Emerson's Essays

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete

It is rarely in the world's history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pain has far more often dominated the world.

— The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Lebanese-American writer, poet, and painter

The professors in the academy say, “Do not make the model more beautiful than she is,” and my soul whispers, “O if you could only paint the model as beautiful as she really is.

— Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and Her Private Journal

6th-century BC semi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

— Tao Te Ching

American writer and literary critic

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.

— The Poetic Principle

English poet and civil servant

And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

— L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas

French poet and critic

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.

— Twenty Prose Poems

German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

— Death in Venice and Other Tales

German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim

The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity. As long as this exists, and that should be forever, I know that there will be solace for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances. I firmly believe that nature can bring comfort to all who suffer.

— The Diary of a Young Girl