There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

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

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Beauty without expression is boring.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

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

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you're going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult.