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Quotes about beauty
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. (Bierce Ambrose)
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. (Bierce Ambrose)
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. (Bierce Ambrose)
The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men. (Bierce Ambrose)
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How goodness heightens beauty! (Bierce Ambrose)
Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. (Bierce Ambrose)
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. (Bierce Ambrose)
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain. (Bierce Ambrose)
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail. (Bierce Ambrose)
Beauty is whatever gives joy. (Bierce Ambrose)
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. (Bierce Ambrose)
In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty. (Bierce Ambrose)
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. (Bierce Ambrose)
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game. (Bierce Ambrose)
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring. (Bierce Ambrose)
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! (Bierce Ambrose)
Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity. (Bierce Ambrose)
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity. (Bierce Ambrose)
Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine (Bierce Ambrose)
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly. (Bierce Ambrose)
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. (Bierce Ambrose)
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. (Bierce Ambrose)
Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that. (Bierce Ambrose)
A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands. (Bierce Ambrose)
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume. (Bierce Ambrose)
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