Beautiful Quote by Jean Rostand

“We can conclude from this that we are drawn to call something beautiful whenever we detect that it contains in a concentrated form those…

— Alain de Botton

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted…

— Dean Koontz

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

— David Hume

Has any psychological experiment yielded a more delightful suggestion than this one: that there is a part of the mind without ambition or information,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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 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

True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete.

— Anonymous

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“The Austrian writer Robert Musil summed up the Fanatic's great rhetorical advantage in just ten words: There is no truth which stupidity can't make…

— David James Duncan

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

Something impractical cannot be beautiful.

— Otto Wagner

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

— Alain de Botton