Beauty has many facets. For example, both Edgar Allan Poe and Karl Lagerfeld said that there is no beauty without “strangeness”.
What do you think ‘beauty’ is? Is there such a thing as ‘universal beauty’?
Our collection of wise and noteworthy quotes and proverbs about beauty shows a picture how the attempts to define beauty developed over centuries.
Read what philosophers, writers, painters, naturalists and physicists said about beauty. Our collection of great words is sorted chronologically by birth year of the unforgettable originator. Enjoy!
Beauty lies
in the eyes
of the beholder.
Plato
(c. 428 – 348 BC, Greek philosopher, as well as mathematician)
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
Beauty is a fragile gift.
Publius Ovidius Naso,
known as Ovid
Rare is the union
of beauty and purity.
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis,
known in English as Juvenal
Let the beauty
of what you love
be
what you do.
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī,
more popularly simply as Rūmī
Beauty surrounds us,
but usually we need
to be walking in a garden
to know it.
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī,
more popularly simply as Rūmī
Beauty awakens
the soul to act.
Durante degli Alighieri,
simply called Dante
Rarely do great beauty
and great virtue
dwell together.
Francesco Petrarca,
commonly anglicized as Petrarch
What beauty is,
I know not,
though it adheres
to many things.
Albrecht Dürer
The autumn of beauty is still beautiful.Latin Proverb
