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Beauty Quotes - Page 14

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

Evelyn Underhill, Dana Greene (1988). “Evelyn Underhill: Modern Guide to the Ancient Quest for the Holy”, p.75, SUNY Press

The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.535, Library of America

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.76

So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

Quoted in Paul Dickson, Baseball's Greatest Quotations (1991)

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

"Contemporary Hispanic Quotations" edited by Daniel E. Stanton, Edward F. Stanton, Greenwood Publishing Group, (p. 35), 2003.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

Agnes Martin, Heinz Liesbrock, Josef-Albers-Museum (2004). “Agnes Martin: the islands”, Richter Verlag

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.14, Vintage

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation