Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Author: John Keats (1795-1821)
Profession: British Poet
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?
Author: Jean Kerr (1923)
Profession: American Author, Playwright
Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
Author: Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Profession: Swiss Artist
To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
Author: Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Profession: Swiss Artist
My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?
Author: Kotomichi
Profession:
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
Author: Karl Kraus (1874-1936)
Profession: Austrian Satirist
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Author: Fran Lebowitz (1951)
Profession: American Journalist
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
Author: Sir John Lubbock (1834-1913)
Profession: British Statesman, Banker, Naturalist
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Author: Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
Profession: British Dramatist, Poet
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
Profession: British Novelist, Playwright
The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
Profession: British Novelist, Playwright
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
Author: Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Profession: German Composer
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Author: George B. Mere
Profession:
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Author: Michelangelo (1474-1564)
Profession: Italian Renaissance Painter, Sculptor
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
Author: Milman
Profession: