Beauty Quote by Donald C. Peattie

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right

— Anonymous

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

— Alvar Aalto

Beauty is aspirational - an ideal that mortals approach but seldom attain.

— Lionel Shriver

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

— Anonymous

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume…

— W. Somerset Maugham

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 is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

— Thorstein Veblen

“Beauty could be defined simply as 'that which pleases.' But there is another aspect to art, and that... is the sublime. Like the mushroom…

— Jen Wang

Beauty is that which excites the soul.

— Gage Taylor

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

— Samuel Richardson

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

— Blaise Pascal