Beauty Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and…

— Albrecht Durer

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them

— David Hume

Beauty means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. A lot of different ways in which things can be beautiful.…

— Peter Woit

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

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

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

— Gustave Courbet

Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches,…

— Lawren Harris

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 is the harmony of purpose and form.

— Alvar Aalto

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

— Plotinus

Beauty is the love that we devote to an object.

— Paul Serusier