The best part
of beauty is that
which no picture
can express.
Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Alban
(1561 – 1626, English philosopher, scientist, essayist and author)
Beauty is power;
a smile is its sword.
John Ray
(1627 – 1705, English naturalist)
Beauty in things exists
in the mind
which contemplates them.
David Hume
(1711 – 1776, Scottish historian, philosopher, and essayist)
For me
the greatest beauty
always lies
in the greatest clarity.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(1729 – 1781, German writer, philosopher, and art critic)
Beauty is the promise
of happiness.
Edmund Burke
(1729 – 1797, Anglo-Irish statesman, author, and philosopher)
The soul
that sees beauty
may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749 – 1832, German writer and statesman)
Let us live
for the beauty
of our own reality.
Charles Lamb
(1775 – 1834, English writer and essayist)
A thing of beauty
is a joy forever.
John Keats
(1795 – 1821, English Romantic poet)
To love beauty
is to see light.
Victor Marie Hugo
(1802 – 1885, French poet, novelist, and dramatist)
What worth has beauty if it is not seen?Italian Proverb
