Beauty Quotes

What is beautiful? These quotes go beyond appearances to explore wonder, aesthetics, and awe.

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"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."
O. Henry
"The modern town is a place of ugliness because men have not had to think of beauty as a necessity."
Sherwood Anderson
"It is a fact that every man is interested in beauty."
Sherwood Anderson
"Beauty is found in simplicity and truth."
Sherwood Anderson
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"There ought to be something sweet that flows over."
Gertrude Stein
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"The way to know about being American is to know about beauty."
Gertrude Stein
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"I like beauty. I like men, but I like beauty more."
Gertrude Stein
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"The most beautiful things in life are often the most fragile."
Booth Tarkington
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"Beauty is found in the imperfect and the broken."
Booth Tarkington
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"Beauty awakens the best in human nature."
Booth Tarkington
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"The soul must be nourished by beauty and truth."
Kate Chopin
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"Beauty lies not in conformity but in the honest expression of one's nature."
Kate Chopin
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"Beauty is the expression of truth without apology."
Kate Chopin
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"Beauty is a relative matter dependent upon the viewer and the viewpoint."
Jack London
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"The beauty of a woman is in her character."
Jack London
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"The mind of any thinking man is too coarse to fix the quality of beauty."
T.S. Eliot
"The most beautiful things are often hidden in plain sight."
Sherwood Anderson
"Beauty requires no explanation; it speaks for itself."
Sherwood Anderson
"Beauty asks nothing of us except to witness it."
Sherwood Anderson
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"I create beauty, I do not invent it."
Ezra Pound
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"Beauty is the promise of happiness."
Ezra Pound
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"Beauty is no quality in things themselves; it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."
Ezra Pound
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"Beauty is not a thing, it is a way."
Gertrude Stein
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"Beauty is in the eye of the one who is looking."
Gertrude Stein
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"Beauty seen is never lost."
Booth Tarkington
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"The beauty of life lies in its uncertainty and infinite possibility."
Booth Tarkington
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"Beauty fades, but virtue endures forever."
Booth Tarkington
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"True beauty is found not in appearance but in character."
Booth Tarkington
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"Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty."
Robert Frost
"I have loved colors as I have loved sounds and words."
Carl Sandburg