Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
Theophile Gautier
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Joseph Addison
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Jean Rostand
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers and never succeeding.
Marc Chagall
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
George Meredith
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
Eugene Ionesco
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Kahlil Gibran
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Kahlil Gibran
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
Ambrose Bierce
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportions.
Charles Baudelaire
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportions.
Charles Baudelaire
Ugliness like beauty is only skin deep
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