Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Beauty, Michelangelo Buonarroti


Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Beauty, Ralph Waldo Emerson


If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Beauty, Ralph Waldo Emerson


Beauty without expression is boring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Beauty, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller


Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Beauty, Edmund Spenser


O, how can beauty master the most strong!

- Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) an English poet