Answers Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty does not have to be extreme.

— Emma Hampton

What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

— Immanuel Kant

Beauty is that to what the human mind responds at its deepest and most profound.

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

“Beauty comes from tension: between order and disorder, simplicity and complexity.”

— Stefan Klein

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

— George Santayana

Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it…

— George Bancroft

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 belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent…

— Anonymous

Meaning, not beauty, is what we are after.

— Peter London

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

— Lionel Shriver