Beauty Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.

— Gustave Flaubert

“It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty.”

— Maggie Nelson

But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the…

— David Hume

“There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.”

— Mandy Hale

“Heaven forbid if beauty were to have substance. Genuine beauty is always meaningless, without virtue”

— Osamu Dazai

“Beauty is an influence based off of judgment.”

— Alyssa Keller

“Although beauty is a marvelous thing, we must discredit it in human relations, since it has little to do with love or happiness.”

— Helen Andelin

“The morality of artists is replaced by aesthetics.”

— Herman Hesse

“Beauty has rights that plainness never will.”

— Kristin Cashore

“Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?”

— Tony Kushner

“From these few observations we can already conclude that the real is never beautiful. Beauty is a value applicable only to the imaginary and…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom…

— Oscar Wilde