You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

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

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

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

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

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

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away

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