Beauty Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and…

— Ethel Smyth

“We never come out untouched from the spell of beauty. While we break away from the commonplace, upscaling and veering from the trodden path,…

— Erik Pevernagie

Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he…

— Jean Genet

“How can the removal of beauty from a world so lacking in beauty be anything but tragic?”

— Anonymous

The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of…

— Dennis Lehane

Society has been conditioned for a very long time to see beauty as something that's been westernised.

— Zozibini Tunzi

The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient…

— George Sarton

The world is obsessed with beauty .

— Nadia Hamilton

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that…

— Charles Dudley Warner

“Beauty has no other origin than a wound, unique, different for each person, hidden or visible, that everyone keeps in himself, that he preserves…

— Jean Genet