Quotes about Beauty
Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.
— Nikki Giovanni
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
— Oscar Wilde
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
— Oscar Wilde
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
— Oscar Wilde
Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?
— CS Lewis
The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.
— Hillary Clinton
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.
— John F. Kennedy
No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
— Marcus Aurelius
Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.
— Henry David Thoreau
Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.
— CS Lewis
Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.
— Ellen Glasgow
I believe that art has incredible power.
— Gloria Steinem