The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.