Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

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

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

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

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

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

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

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

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

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