Beauty Quote by Claude Debussy

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

— Alvar Aalto

Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.

— Terence McKenna

Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.

— Anonymous

Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.

— Michelangelo

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

— Blaise Pascal

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

— Tadao Ando

Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches,…

— Lawren Harris

Beauty, however, must here be understood in its original meaning: as the glow of the true and the good irradiating from every ordered state…

— Josef Pieper

Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.

— Paloma Elsesser

“Beauty is merely defined by the very core of one's soul, which then and only then outlines one's outside features, reflecting beyond the body.…

— Lisa Abu-Bakr

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

— David Hume