Aesthetics Quotes

"There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion" "Love is a great beautifier." "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" "There is a kind of beauty in imperfection" "The child should live in an environment of beauty." "Exuberance is better than taste" "I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty" "Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest" "There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth" "Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them" "Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said." "Of all lies art is the least untrue" "There are neither good nor bad subjects From the point of view of pure Art you could almost establish it as an axiom that there is no such thing as a subject inferior in itself or without possibilities" "Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it" "What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness."