Beauty Quote by John Ruskin

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole effect is…

— Florence Nightingale

Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and…

— Jean de la Bruyere

One source of the sublime is infinity.

— Edmund Burke

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it…

— Immanuel Kant

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of…

— Eleanor Catton

You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.

— Madame de Stael

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I keep thinking of Robert Stone making the distinction between the word sublime and the word beautiful. He described being in a battle as…

— George Saunders

Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

— Anonymous

The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.

— Edmund Burke