Beautiful Quote by Victor Hugo

The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by…

— Leo Tolstoy

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

— Anonymous

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general…

— Walter Pater

Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of…

— Orlan

“Beauty is life; beautiful is that being in which we see life as it should be according to our conceptions; beautiful is the object…

— Nikolai Chernyshevsky

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.

— Karl Marx

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

— Alvar Aalto

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

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

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 is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.

— Nancy Etcoff

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that…

— Leo Tolstoy