Art Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“For essential beauty is infinite, and, as the soul of Nature needs an endless succession of varied forms to embody her loveliness, countless faces…

— George MacDonald

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it…

— George Bancroft

Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which…

— Victor Cousin

That which reminds us of nature and thus stimulates a feeling for the infinite abundance of life is beautiful. Nature is organic,and therefore the…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Therefore beauty is the true monument and spoil of the victory of the soul, when she with heavenly influence beareth rule over material and…

— Thomas Hoby

“The love of beauty is really a signal to free ourselves from that sensory attachment, and to begin the ascent of the soul towards…

— Roger Scruton

Behind all forms of beauty there is an infinite unity, and this unity, this intrinsic and eternal beauty, the artist is seeking to discern…

— Lyman Abbott

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and…

— Eugene Ionesco

Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh.

— Georg Buchner

“the Beautiful is the expression of the absolute Spirit, which is truth itself. This region of Divine truth as artistically presented to perception and…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

— Francis Bacon

“The sense of beauty puts a brake upon destruction, by representing its object as irreplaceable. When the world looks back at me with my…

— Roger Scruton