Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

I don’t like perfumes that are too strong or sweet. I like a fragrance that is earthy and sensual and can be worn at any time.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Water’s never clumsy.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

Girls are soft and pretty.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

The good is the beautiful.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

All art is quite useless.