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Beauty

The beautiful is that which is desirable in itself.
- Aristotle

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.
- George Bancroft

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.
- Charles Baudelaire

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal;
from which it follows that irregularity -- that is to say, the unexpected,
surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.
- Baudelaire

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
- Al Bernstein

Exuberance is beauty.
- William Blake

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
- Alexis Carrel

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
- Confucious

There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form
of an object be what it may, -- light, shade, and perpective
will always make it beautiful.
- John Constable

Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are
a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted
to each taste, to each particular constitution.
- Eugene Delacroix

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each moment of the year has its own beauty...
a picture which was never seen before and which shall never be seen again.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would
develop our true natures more.
- Shirley Hazard

That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need,
which springs from the soul.
- Wassily Kandinsky

Beauty is whatever gives joy.
- Hugh Nibley

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty,
you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished.
But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

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