Beauty is a phase of the absolute that occurs

when the aesthetic emotion awakens.

-Edward Clark 

I love all beauteous things,
I seek and adore them.
-Robert Bridges

Beauty doth of itself
persuade the eyes of men
without an orator.
-William Shakespeare

I have loved the principle
of beauty in all things.
-John Keats

Everything has beauty
but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius

So many things become beautiful
when you really look.
-Lauren Oliver

Things looked at patiently from one side after another
generally end up by showing a side that is beautiful.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

The criterion of beauty
is that it increases on examination.
-William Grenville

The first question I ask myself
when something doesn't seem to be beautiful
is why do I think it's not beautiful.
And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
-John Cage

Dirty, stained, withered, broken things
seem beautiful to me.
-Yohji Yamamoto

Things are beautiful if you love them.
-Jean Anouilh

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places 

where other people see nothing.

-Camille Pissarro

Beauty in things
exists in the mind which contemplates them.
-David Hume

Beauty is relative.
Our sense of beauty
is conditioned by our taste.
-Vanda Scaravelli

There is no absolute standard of beauty.
That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
-John Kenneth Galbraith

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
-H. G. Wells

The sensation of beauty is not sensual on the one hand,

nor is it intellectual on the other,

but is dependent on a pure, right, and open state of the heart.

-John Ruskin

Because your heart is so beautiful,
everything looks beautiful to you.
-Japanese Proverb

The beauty of the world around us
is only according to what we, ourselves, bring to it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though we travel the world over,
To find the beautiful,
We must carry it with us
Or we find it not.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The more you discover beauty within,
the more you will discover it around you.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

It is those who have touched the inner beauty
who are able to appreciate beauty in all its forms.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

The soul cannot see beauty
unless it first becomes beautiful itself,
and every man must make himself beautiful and divine
in order to attain the sight of beauty and divinity.
-Plotinus

When you reach the heart of life
you shall find beauty in all things,
even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.
-Kahlil Gibran

This world is nothing more than
Beauty's chance to show Herself.
And what are we? -
Nothing more than Beauty's chance to see Herself.
-Ghalib

Beauty is truth's smile
when she beholds her own face
in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore

To love beauty is to see light.
-Victor Hugo

Beauty is a light in the heart.
-Kahlil Gibran

Love is a great beautifier.
-Louisa May Alcott

Exuberance is beauty.
-William Blake

Zest is the secret of all beauty.
There is no beauty that is attractive without it.
-Christian Dior

There is no beautifier
of the complexion, of form, or behavior
like the wish to scatter joy.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is a radiance that originates from within
and comes from inner security and strong character.
-Jane Seymour

Live with dignity, women, live with dignity, men.
Few things will more enhance your beauty as much.
-Rabia al-Adawiyyah

Beauty is the only language of our soul.
-Maurice Maeterlinck

Nothing is more eager for beauty than the soul,
nor more susceptible of becoming beautiful.
-Maurice Maeterlinck

Every individual nature
has its own beauty.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are beautiful when we belong to ourselves...
also are we beautiful when we know ourselves.
-Plotinus

The ancients called beauty
the flowering of virtue.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty adorns virtue.
-Leonardo da Vinci

Beauty when unadorned
is adorned the most.
-Saint Jerome

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
-Michelangelo Buonarroti

Beauty is finished in simplicity.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

The beauty we love is very silent.
It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.
-Richard Le Gallienne

Refinement creates beauty everywhere.
-William Hazlitt

Love of beauty is taste.
The creation of beauty is art.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is beauty of form, of color, of line,
of manner, of character.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

In life, as in art,
the beautiful moves in curves.
-Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Beauty lies in perfect integration,
whether of movements, colors, lines, sounds,
life-processes or logical terms.
-Nilakantha Sri Ram

Beauty is the adjustment
of all parts proportionately
so that one cannot add or subtract or change
without impairing the harmony of the whole.
-Leon B. Alberti

Order is the shape
upon which beauty depends.
-Pearl S. Buck

Beauty is complete order.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

Beauty is the clearest manifestation
of perfection.
-George Santayana

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.
Philosophies fall away like sand,
creeds follow one another,
but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons,
a possession for all eternity.
-Oscar Wilde

Beauty is what gives me joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

If one really loves nature,
one can find beauty everywhere.
-Vincent Van Gogh

Beauty is a glorious gift of nature.
-Homer

New beauty meets us every step
in all our wanderings.
-John Muir

All Nature was at beauty's festival.
-Aurobindo Ghose

For beauty being the best of all we know
Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims
Of nature.
-Robert Bridges

The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it
as it feels the campfire or sunshine,
entering not by the eyes alone,
but equally through all one's flesh like radiant heat,
making a passionate ecstatic pleasure glow not explainable.
-John Muir

Truth makes all things beautiful.
-Edward Counsel

What is beautiful
must always be true.
-Stendahl

The beautiful
is the splendour of the true.
-Plato

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," that is all
Ye know on earth and all ye need to know.
-John Keats

All beauty is truth.
True features make the beauty of the face;
true proportions the beauty of architecture;
true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.
-Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury

When I am working on a problem
I never think about beauty.
I only think about how to solve the problem.
But when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
-Buckminster Fuller

The highest beauty comes always,
not from beautiful numbers,
nor from likeness to nature's eternal pattern of the world,
but from utility, fitness, economy
and the perfect adaptation of means to ends.
-Claude Bragdon

Beauty — be not caused — It Is

-Emily Dickinson

What delights us in visible beauty
is the invisible.
-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In the perfection of each Form
is a Beauty that is the revelation of the Divine.
-M. P. Pandit

Everything beautiful
has a mark of eternity.
-Simone Weil

As one ascends through moral beauty
one will reach a point where a marvellous eternal beauty appears,
free from any corruption, absolutely beautiful.
This beauty does not consist of a beautiful face,
a beautiful body, a thought or any particular science or art.
It resides in no other being than itself,
neither in heaven nor on earth,
it simply exists in itself in eternity
and exists for itself in absolute, perfect unity.
-Plato

I am the lover
of uncontained and immortal beauty.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty
Our eyes could never see.
-George William Russell

I cannot live without beauty.
-Albert Camus

Happily may I walk.
May it be beautiful before me.
May it be beautiful behind me.
May it be beautiful below me.
May it be beautiful above me.
May it be beautiful all around me.
In beauty it is finished.
-Navajo Night Chant