Abstraction Quote by Henri Matisse

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

— Douglas Horton

Beauty reveals itself in the course of an experience with an object.

— Howard Gardner

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

— Leon Battista Alberti

Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of…

— Orlan

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

— Arthur Cayley

Beauty arises out of human inspiration.

— Richard Dawkins

Beauty will result from the form and the correspondence of the whole, with respect to the several parts, of the parts with regard to…

— Andrea Palladio

Beauty alters the grain of reality,

— Donna Tartt

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

— Alvar Aalto

Beauty is transient and changes with time.

— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.

— Karl Marx

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.

— Denis Dutton