Beauty Quote by William Morris

Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The…

— Evelyn Waugh

“The designs of men are notoriously subservient to happenstance, hesitation, and haste; but”

— Amor Towles

That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation.…

— Oscar Wilde

Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of…

— David Keirsey

It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions,…

— David Hume

Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest…

— Robert Nozick

The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off or squares…

— Charles Baudelaire

The third order, called Corinthian, is an imitation of the slenderness of a maiden; for the outlines and limbs of maidens, being more slender…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

The exercise of criticism always destroys for a time our sensibility to beauty by leading us to regard the work in relation to certain…

— Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet

A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without a reason.…

— George Berkeley

Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“The three creative prototypes, the scientist, the artist, and the saint, know instinctively, without the help of any mere philosopher, that each must obey…

— Salvador de Madariaga