Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.