Quotes: Beauty

Beauty...
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.” 
― Albert Einstein

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” 
― Confucius

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” 
― Franz Kafka

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” 
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.” 
― Edgar Allan Poe

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” 
― Louisa May Alcott

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson's Essays

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all 
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know” 
― John Keats, The Complete Poems

“the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls” 
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Beauty is not caused. It is.” 
― Emily Dickinson

“Beauty is a sign of intelligence.” 
― Andy Warhol

“Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not” 
― John Keats

“Beauty awakens the soul to act.” 
― Dante Alighieri

"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
-- Michelangelo

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection”
Michelangelo

“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
Michelangelo

"My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth's loveliness." 
-- Michelangelo