Beautiful Quote by Democritus

The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way…

— Paul Klee

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

— Jean Cocteau

Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and…

— Albrecht Durer

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. This is the reason why beauty is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them

— David Hume

It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is…

— E. Nesbit

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and…

— John Constable

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

“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

“...often a thing that is ugly is ugly in itself, and often a thing that is ugly is only a thing that is forgotten,…

— Jamaica Kincaid

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I've never seen an ugly thing in my life. Let the form of an object be what it is. Light, shade, and perspective will…

— Anonymous