Quotes about Beauty
Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.
— Henry David Thoreau
Art to be art must soothe.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
— Wendell Berry
That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.
— John Piper
In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.
— William Saroyan
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
— William Wordsworth
My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man;
— William Wordsworth
"Pretty is as pretty does" was a stupid cliché in her estimation. Pretty is what God does in the hearts and minds of people who are a mess-whether outwardly or inwardly or both.
— Cindy Woodsmall
Our desire is to help you embrace the beauty of the life God has given you. We wrote Plain Wisdom to encourage you to accept yourself,forgive yourself, challenge yourself,laugh at yourself, and most important,see yourself through God's eyes of love.For when you do,you will find the freedom to truly enjoy your life.
— Cindy Woodsmall
A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
— Coco Chanel