Quote by Baruch Spinoza

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination…

— Baruch Spinoza

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is no pretty, or ugly... There is only what the individual mind perceives~”

— Aaron Sell

“The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in…

— Victor Hugo

“We can conclude from this that we are drawn to call something beautiful whenever we detect that it contains in a concentrated form those…

— Alain de Botton

“From these few observations we can already conclude that the real is never beautiful. Beauty is a value applicable only to the imaginary and…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Because no matter how much we think otherwise, there are those ugly things that hold the greatest potential for beauty.”

— Jo Ann Fore

“I try to believe that something beautiful can result from something ugly, and that there will come a time when I'll get to see…

— Mia Sheridan

“Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.”

— John Piper

“everything is tinted, modified, shaped by what we bring to it by our mentality. If we bring beauty to it, we find that it…

— Orison Swett Marden

The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most…

— Victor Hugo

“We live solely in our minds. If things are ugly there, things are ugly every where.”

— Garry Fitchett