Abiding Quote by Lawren Harris

Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.

— Terence McKenna

Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.

— Deena Metzger

Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the…

— George Santayana

Beauty is something everybody longs for, needs, and tries to obtain in some way - whether through nature, or a man or a woman,…

— James Hillman

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

— Gustave Courbet

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

— Alvar Aalto

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by…

— Jean-Luc Godard

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Beauty is aspirational - an ideal that mortals approach but seldom attain.

— Lionel Shriver

Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.

— Anonymous

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.

— Vincent McNabb

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

— David Hume