Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?

You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.