Beautiful Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. This is the reason why beauty is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be pretty.

— Rei Kawakubo

“Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused”

— Baruch Spinoza

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values…

— Aldo Leopold

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

— David Hume

The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess…

— Mark Helprin

Being pretty and beautiful have very different definitions in my book.

— Anonymous

I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.

— Fitz-Greene Halleck

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

Things are beautiful if you love them.

— Jean Anouilh