Beauty Quote by Timothy Morton

“Our desire for beauty is likely to outlast its object because, as Kant once observed, unlike all other pleasures, the pleasure we take in…

— Elaine Scarry

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

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

Without a doubt the sense of beauty does not lie determined in the concreteness of an individual beautiful thing or person. Rather its purpose…

— Alexander Lernet-Holenia

Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.

— Amit Ray

Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its…

— Walter Pater

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 is like a soul that hovers over the surface of form. Its presence is unmistakable in art or in life.

— Gutzon Borglum

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

— Liv Tyler

Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Beauty is that which excites the soul.

— Gage Taylor