Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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

To love beauty is to see light.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

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