Beauty Quotes
What is beautiful? These quotes go beyond appearances to explore wonder, aesthetics, and awe.
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"Beauty exists precisely because ugliness exists to contrast it."Albert Camus
"Beauty is whatever moves the soul to creation."Jean-Paul Sartre
"Beauty fades, but intelligence remains; therefore cultivate your mind as you would cultivate your face."Montesquieu
"The flower fades, but the fragrance remains."Denis Diderot
"Beauty is the harmony of all parts united by proportion."Denis Diderot
"Beauty is not found in conformity, but in authentic expression."Simone de Beauvoir
"We are living only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Beauty is the language through which God speaks to the human soul."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Beauty is the evidence that the world is designed for our delight."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder."Pierre Corneille
"Beauty transcends appearances."Pierre Corneille
"Beauty is truth made visible."Jean Racine
"Beauty fades but character endures."Jean Racine
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."Molière
"The beautiful and the good are the same."Molière
"I say a flower! and out of the forgetfulness to which my voice relegates every contour, so much as I separate from the group of other flowers, there arises musically the idea itself and sweet."Stéphane Mallarmé
"Beauty belongs to the world of dreams."Stéphane Mallarmé
"True beauty lies in imperfection."Stéphane Mallarmé
"The soul yearns for beauty in all things."Stéphane Mallarmé
"I adore the beautiful season when heaven rains fire and the air is changed into dust."Charles Baudelaire
"Beauty is the supreme spiritual reality."Charles Baudelaire
"In every landscape, there is a certain beauty which speaks to the soul."Charles Baudelaire
"The perfumes that we gather from the air are often the sweetest."Charles Baudelaire
"Tender, eternal, and exquisite as a perfume."Charles Baudelaire
"All beautiful things belong to the sphere of sadness."Charles Baudelaire
"What is a beautiful woman? It is a human being."Charles Baudelaire
"The beautiful is always strange."Charles Baudelaire
"Beauty exists in the extraordinary, not the ordinary."Charles Baudelaire
"The true wealth of a nation lies in its beauty."Charles Baudelaire
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."Charles Baudelaire