Beauty Quote by Max Bill

For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate…

— Henry John Stephen Smith

Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and…

— Eckhart Tolle

“Physical things are eloquent tokens of ideas,enriched by new meanings through time even when the tokens are no more than evanescent paper representations.”

— Mary Catherine Bateson

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

— Jerry Saltz

The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty,…

— Annie Dillard

There is a conceptual depth as well as a purely visual depth. The first is discovered by science; the second is revealed in art.…

— Ernst Cassirer

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

— Constantin Brancusi

The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a form. A…

— Beauford Delaney

Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.

— Henri Matisse

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson