Beauty Quote by Joseph Addison

Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.

— Jean Cocteau

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

— Benjamin Franklin

We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect,…

— Alberto Manguel

“The mysterious quality of artworks is a signal of the mysterious quality of objects in general. Beauty is a secret that we know exists…

— Timothy Morton

Artists are always searching for beauty - and when they find it and fashion it in their own unique way - it does not…

— John Kurtz

I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.

— Henry Miller

There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

— Hans Hofmann

For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Anonymous

It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is…

— E. Nesbit

...The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A…

— J. Paul Getty