Beauty Quotes

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

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"Beauty is truth; truth is beauty. Together they compose the whole of human experience."
Denis Diderot
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"Beauty is not what is perfect, but what is true and alive."
Denis Diderot
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"Beauty that endures is that which reflects inner virtue."
Pierre Corneille
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"True beauty needs no adornment to be recognized."
Pierre Corneille
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"Beauty is not a quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Beauty fades, but virtue endures through all seasons."
Molière
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"Beauty fades, but the mark we leave on others' hearts endures forever."
Jean Racine
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"The miracle is in the ordinary."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Beauty exists in the space between expression and silence."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"True elegance resides in simplicity."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"The finite represents the infinite through careful arrangement."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Beauty demands absolute sincerity."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Beauty is the form consciousness takes."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"The highest expression is almost wordless."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Beauty demands recognition of its own mystery."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Beauty is the revelation of form's necessity."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Beauty emerges from the ordered arrangement of elements."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"Beauty is a fact, not a matter of opinion."
Voltaire
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"Flowers are stars in the sky"
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Beauty demands to be seen"
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Beauty is rebellion against conformity"
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Beauty is found in simplicity and grace."
Paul Verlaine
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"The soul speaks in whispers of beauty."
Paul Verlaine
"I love the muted light of autumn afternoons; they teach me the value of transience."
Charles Baudelaire
"The beautiful people are not those born with beautiful faces, but those who understand beauty itself."
Charles Baudelaire
"Perfume is the soul of flowers captured in a bottle."
Charles Baudelaire
"Beauty that lasts is beauty that contains within it an element of the eternal."
Charles Baudelaire
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"True beauty lies in moral excellence."
Pierre Corneille
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"Beauty fades, but virtue endures forever."
Jean Racine
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"True beauty lies in the depths of character."
Jean Racine